At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was like during the Pleistocene ...

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, ...

Mammoths, dire wolves and saber-toothed cats. Oh my, what a fascinating walk through Pleistocene history is provided by a relatively new Southern Nevada state park. Ice Age Fossils State Park opened ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. (KRQE) – A team of researchers has identified an Ice Age relative of the muskox from fossils uncovered in Carlsbad Caverns National Park. The new species, named Speleotherium logani, ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES-- Scientists are studying a huge cache of Ice Age fossil deposits recovered near Los Angeles' famous La Brea Tar Pits. Among the finds is a near-intact mammoth skeleton and bones of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the Indiana weather heats up, you're probably looking for your next outdoor adventure to be of the cooler variety. And lucky ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long ago, approximately 2.6 million years ago during the Ice Age, prehistoric animals roamed throughout the U.S., including ...