Step aside, carbon dating. Paleontologists date fossils based on the clues in the rocks surrounding them. When paleontologists dig up a fossil from the ground, how do they figure out the age of the ...

You’ve heard of carbon dating, but it’s not used for dinosaur fossils. Find out what methods scientists use to determine the ...

WHITE SANDS, N.M. (KRQE) – New research reaffirms that fossil human footprints found in White Sands National Park in New Mexico date to the Last Glacial Maximum, placing humans in North America ...

From feathered dinosaurs to frozen mammoths, fossils keep upending science with discoveries that rewrite the history of life.

Mexican scientists have made important new discoveries after an airport construction project uncovered ancient Ice Age ...

Mammoths, dire wolves and saber-toothed cats. Oh my, what a fascinating walk through Pleistocene history is provided by a relatively new Southern Nevada state park. Ice Age Fossils State Park opened ...

DNA found in fossils from southwestern Germany suggests the populations survived in the region much longer than expected.

More than 13,000 years ago, when an abundance of saber-toothed cats roamed the Los Angeles Basin, the giant mammal would hide in tall savanna grasses or behind juniper shrubs and stalk its prey. “We ...

Scientists found that different species of woolly mammoths were interbreeding, creating hybrid babies with traits from both ...