Long ago, approximately 2.6 million years ago during the Ice Age, prehistoric animals roamed throughout the U.S., including Louisiana. Prehistoric megafauna like the mastodon, which were large, ...

A fossil bone found in a sand pit in the 1980s near the Green River has turned out to be much older than originally suspected. It dates back to the Ice Age. The shin bone comes from a species of camel ...

At La Brea Tar Pits, Emily Lindsey digs into Ice Age life beneath LA’s surface. Paleontologist Emily Lindsey uncovers the past beneath the streets of Los Angeles at the La Brea Tar Pits — home to the ...

Far below the surface of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, a flooded labyrinth of limestone tunnels has quietly guarded one of the most haunting fossil troves of the Ice Age. In the darkness of a submerged ...

Hippos roamed central Europe much later than previously thought, as 40,000 years ago, a new study of Ice Age fossils reveals. Scientists previously thought common hippos – Hippopotamus amphibius – ...

Hundreds of millions of Americans are presently besieged by a massive arctic blast and winter storm. Luckily for them, it ...

LUBBOCK, Texas - Recent archaeological excavations at a highway construction site in West Texas have uncovered the fossilized remains of "megafauna," according to a release from the Texas Department ...

Cool off this July with family-friendly Ice Age activities, from fossil exploration and story time to art-making and exploration of the museum’s new hands-on Discovery Center. Settle in for a story ...

This year at the Tucson gem shows, you can see everything from a complete woolly rhino fossil, to large silver specimens on ...

An old fossil discovery is providing new information to scientists nearly 40 years later. A fossil bone found in a sand pit near Vernal, Utah, in the 1980s has turned out to be an older-than-expected ...