Albuquerque museum curator helps identify Speleotherium logani, a previously unknown muskox relative that roamed the region ...

2001-08-05 04:00:00 PDT Porcupine Cave, Colo.-- Ancient, fingernail-size rodent skulls plucked from the dirt with tweezers are forcing scientists to rethink their assumptions about the arrival of much ...

Archaeology Day returns to the Ross County Heritage Center on April 19. The event will run from 1 to 5 p.m., according to an announcement. This is the eighth year the Ross County Historical Society, ...

Across the icy edges of Earth’s northern and southern reaches, life has adapted to thrive in some of the harshest conditions. Plants with frost-resistant tissues, beetles with antifreeze-like blood, ...

The La Brea Tar Pits – home to more than 3.5 million Ice Age fossils – is one of the planet’s best-kept records of what it was like in the area we now know as Southern California over the last 60,000 ...

"Ice Age Mammals" is written in the style of a Scientific American article, accessible to scientists and educated lay readers alike. It's a bit of a "field guide to extinct animals," said editor ...

About two million years ago Earth entered the last Ice Age, known more correctly as the Pleistocene epoch. Paleo-humans coexisted with bizarre-looking Ice Age mammals like woolly mammoths, ...

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. National Museum of Natural History (U ...