Hand-carved arrowheads and jagged spears made of obsidian, a sharp rock formed by volcanic magma, are remnants of vast ...

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the ...

Indeed, Hoyo Negro is proving to be one of the most important fossil sites in the world, offering a stunning window into an ...

A genetic analysis of the world's iguanas may have just solved an enduring mystery of how the creatures ended up in Fiji.

In prehistoric North America, the short-faced bear (Arctodus simus) ruled the land. It was one of the biggest and most powerful predators the world has seen, weighing an immense 900 kilograms and ...

Far bigger than any dog that walks the earth today, Epicyon haydeni dominated North America for millions of years before it ...

"It is amazing to imagine these giant flying squirrels gliding over rhinos and mastodons," said paleontologist Joshua Samuels.

What would I personally hope to learn? My interest is in the patterns of skeletal variation temporally and geographically in prehistoric North America. Kennewick Man represents a time period from ...

A further wonder is the marvelous story this individual can tell about life in prehistoric America ... and lifestyles of early peoples in North America than that written in textbooks.

Are wild horses truly “wild,” as an indigenous species in North America, or are they “feral weeds”—barnyard escapees, far removed genetically from their prehistoric ancestors? The question at hand is, ...

Formed from prehistoric vegetation, the majority of these deposits are found in parts of Europe, North America, and Asia that were lush, tropically located regions during the Carboniferous.