Paleontology

A well-preserved fossil introduces a new species that lived in what is now California around 42 million years ago

New fossils are changing a decades-old story about the species that roamed the Mediterranean 80 million years ago.

Researchers want their models to inspire more accurate reconstructions of extinct animals such as mammoths and saber-toothed cats

Microbe DNA trapped in 3,500-year-old fossils shows canine adaptation to agricultural diets

Seeds found in fossilized tracks fuel new speculation about when—and how—people arrived

This may be for the same reason humans swing their arms when walking and running

Ice age impressions in limestone show that human ancestors inhabited the area

Researchers find the mammoth walked far enough to circle the globe twice

The last time this tiny wheel animalcule was moving around, woolly mammoths roamed the earth.

Structures diverted the weather pattern’s floods to new farmlands 2,000 years ago