Ancient footprints challenge the timeline of human arrival in North America, suggesting people were here much earlier than ...

A miner digging for gold instead dug up the remains of a baby woolly mammoth. The discovery gives scientists the chance to ...

Animal Adventure is preparing to transport visitors back to the days of mammoths and saber-tooth tigers with a new exhibit ...

Prehistoric fossils dating back to the Ice Age discovered in South Louisiana. What prehistoric animals used to roam Louisiana ...

In North America, when the first white traders and trappers arrived, there were as many as 400 million beavers. By 1900, there were perhaps 100,000. For three centuries they were trapped for their ...

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