Around 800,000 to 900,000 years ago, a genetic bottleneck occurred, drastically reducing the human population. This event led ...

The name “lion” doesn’t only apply to the king of the jungle. Perhaps in a nod of deference, there are many animals that ...

Rice’s whale is the only baleen whale species that lives year round in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico in the continental ...

Dr. Julie Meachen, lead paleontologist and a professor at Des Moines University recently talked about Wyoming’s Natural Trap ...

M ammoth species in North America repeatedly interbred over thousands of years, creating hybrid offspring, a new fossil ...

Three million years ago, an extinct relative of today's great penguins—emperors and kings—lived in Aotearoa New Zealand.

One of the most intriguing and intricate mysteries in paleontology is the disappearance of North America's giant mammals, or ...

Dating dinosaur eggs is difficult: available methods are limited and prone to errors because measurement proxies – such as volcanic rocks or crystals – may have changed between egg laying and dating ...

Dating dinosaur eggs has always been tricky because traditional methods rely on surrounding rocks or minerals that may have shifted over time. Now, for the first time, scientists have directly dated ...

Columbian mammoths in Mexico are genetically different from those in the U.S. and Canada, surprise DNA study reveals.

When people think of prehistoric life, they tend to jump to two behemoth bookends — the towering dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era and then the woolly mammoths of the ice age. But what about the millions ...