In a recent study, University of Alaska Fairbanks paleontologist Matthew Wooller and his colleagues radiocarbon-dated what they thought were pieces of two mammoth vertebrae, only to get a whale of a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bison are the largest land mammals in North America, but there was a time when something much, much larger roamed the land. The ...
What for decades looked like a remarkable woolly mammoth discovery in Alaska has turned into an even stranger scientific mystery. Researchers say fossilized backbones — not a complete skeleton — ...
While diving in the alligator-infested waters of Florida's Peace River, self-proclaimed fossil junkie John Kreastoulas made ...
A remarkably preserved Siberian woolly mammoth, dating back 52,000 years, has yielded an astonishing discovery: fossilized chromosomes. This unprecedented find, made possible by natural freeze-drying, ...
Bison are the largest land mammals in North America, but there was a time when something much, much larger roamed the land. The recent discovery of a fossil from one of the giants in Mississippi, a ...