It's been thousands of years since the woolly mammoths that used to roam the Northern Hemisphere went extinct. However, their former habitat is still ...

Where some visitors see unparalleled natural beauty, others feel "underwhelmed" at an Arizona spot named among most disappointing national parks.

Now I’ve covered some exotic hunting, but this is on another level. So, apparently there is this prehistoric-bone hunter, or fossil hunter, whatever you want to call him.

Named for its astonishing head crest, Spinosaurus mirabilis was found at a newly discovered site known as Jenguebi. This fossiliferous area lies in Niger’s central Sahara and, based on its geology, it ...

Mammoth,” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is a self-portrait through sculpture, video, photography and more. And it lives up to its name.

“The ancient DNA came to our rescue to secure the specimens’ true identity,” wrote Wooller and his colleagues. It also opened ...

Costa Rica's Museo Nacional announces a groundbreaking fossil discovery in Cartago, including remains of a mastodon-like ...

Aspen One says hotel sustainability efforts fall short without lobbying and system change. Its Limelight Hotels are going all-electric.

Fossils Galore is offering a week of prehistoric intrigue, fun with fossils and dinosaur discovery from this Saturday, ...

Two fossil bones long tagged as woolly mammoth have now been confirmed as whales after tests overturned their museum label.

Learn more about Tyrannoroter heberti, a football-shaped land vertebrate who may have enjoyed snacking on plants.

Until now, estimating how old a dinosaur was when it died has been a fairly simple process: Count up the growth rings in the fossilized bones. But new research into some of dinosaurs' living relatives ...