Filmmaker Peter Jackson's fascination with a large extinct New Zealand bird has led to an unusual partnership with a biotech ...

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many ...

Ancient DNA from prehistoric bones reveals a 37,000-year timeline of human infections, tracing our long struggle with disease.

In just the last several months, de-extinction — bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble ...

Supporters of the Waco Mammoth National Monument are celebrating 10 years since it became part of the National Park Service ...

Wikimedia Commons/Ammodramus Murray Springs, Arizona In March 1966, archaeologists C. Vance Haynes Jr. and Peter Mehringer Jr. found the Murray Springs site near a steep-walled gulch in southeastern ...

In the midst of a geothermal feasibility project, DMNS researchers made a more surprising discovery: a dinosaur bone from ...

Among the remains of at least 110 mammoths (gargantuan creatures that reached three meters tall and weighed some six tons), ...

The site is celebrating 10 years of educating visitors about the mammals that walked Texas during the Ice Age.

The rare prehistoric discovery, which is 6cm long and 4cm wide, is believed to be a molar of a juvenile steppe mammoth, ...

As the oldest mammoth bone shelters discovered by archaeologists that were created by Homo sapiens date to 25,000 years ago.

Medical professionals at Kadlec hospital clinic in Richland, WA make cast around an ice age mammoth bone unearthed near Kennewick to help stabilize it.