Kentucky has more than its share of history. From the last 250 years of American history to the history of the Indigenous ...

A remarkable discovery in North Dakota as coal miners unearthed a rare giant Ice Age mammoth tusk, along with over 20 ...

Recent fossil discoveries in Australia have shed light on the continent’s rare and unusual wildlife, from giant Pleistocene megafauna to toothed platypuses with powerful bites. These finds reveal ...

In 2016, Australian beachcombers uncovered fossils that revealed Australia’s ancient megafauna, including giant marsupials ...

Ten thousand years ago, the Americas teemed with mastodons, giant ground sloths, and saber-toothed cats. Within a few millennia, nearly all of them were gone. A study published in April 2025 in the ...

A new study shows how the loss of large animals thousands of years ago still shapes ecosystems today and may affect their future stability.

Researchers at the Museo Nacional de Costa Rica have confirmed a major paleontological find in the province of Cartago: fossil remains from a mastodon-like creature and a giant ground sloth. This ...

An Iowa Pleistocene snail on a leaf in northeastern Iowa. — Brian Huberty/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The giant ground sloth may be the most beloved of all of Iowa’s Ice Age animals, thanks to ...

Across parts of South America, researchers have made an unusual discovery – a vast network of massive underground tunnels carved into a rocky landscape. Their origins were a mystery – too large to be ...

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected fossils. A team of archaeologists examined the fossilized leg bone of an ...

New research led by UNSW Sydney palaeontologists challenges the idea that indigenous Australians hunted Australia’s megafauna to extinction, suggesting instead they were fossil collectors. Renowned ...