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 ...

In Colorado, scientists made a very big and plentiful find of bones dating back to the Ice Age. Tom Bearden reports on what kind of fossils were unearthed and what the new findings can tell us. For ...

From feathered dinosaurs to frozen mammoths, fossils keep upending science with discoveries that rewrite the history of life. National Fossil Day is not just about admiring dinosaur skeletons or ...

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.

Before Ice Age Fossils State Park, there was the ‘Big Dig’ — PHOTOS Before Ice Age Fossils State Park was even an idea, there was the Big Dig. From October 1962 to January 1963, archeologists near ...

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 ...

The fossils provide a peek into Jurassic life. "It's easy to imagine the prehistoric world as just a stage for giant animals to stomp across, but these environments were as changeable and challenging ...

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