It's not every day that a new species is discovered. Nope, that figure is closer to 44 new species per day, on average, as science identifies over 16,000 new organisms per year. Many of these may be ...
If it contains what everyone suspects — the intact skull of MH2, one of the most complete Australopithecus sediba skeletons ever found — it could reshape our understanding of human evolution yet again ...
While searching the river for Pleistocene fossils, Kyle and his friends uncovered an incredible assortment of prehistoric remains — including giant ground sloth teeth, giant armadillo armor, horse and ...
When you’re a kitten in a shelter, you have to take what you can get. Any small quirk can make you charming and adoptable, and most shelters will do their best to lean into whatever makes you stand ...
A caver dropped into a hole in the limestone of Comal County, Texas, put his face into the underground stream at the bottom, and found the streambed paved with bones. John Young photographed what he ...
A full-size reconstruction of the extinct giant caiman genus Purussaurus, displayed alongside visitors. Source. Photo: JosiasZ/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Four shallow pits in a broken bird leg ...
Thousands of years ago, sticky tar pits in modern-day Los Angeles, California, became the graveyard for prehistoric felines struggling with deformities and disease. Soon after, the creatures would ...
Saber-toothed cats may have been limping toward extinction long before they vanished. A new study of more than 3,700 vertebrae from Smilodon fatalis found at Los Angeles' La Brea Tar Pits documents ...
The fossilized spines of saber-toothed cats in the La Brea Tar Pits reveal evidence of an unexpectedly high prevalence of rare spinal nerve tumors, suggesting that the species became inbred just ...