The much-anticipated Ice Age Fossils State Park in North Las Vegas is set to open Jan. 20, the Nevada Division of State Parks announced this month. In April, officials had announced the park would ...

Recently exposed sandbars along the drought-stricken Mississippi River have caught the attention of fossil hunters, leading to two exceptional finds from a rare ice age species. Wiley Prewitt was ...

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A team of researchers has identified an Ice Age relative of the muskox from fossils uncovered in Carlsbad Caverns National ...

Uniquely is a Merced Sun-Star series that covers the moments, landmarks and personalities that define what makes living in the Merced area so special. The Columbian mammoth once roamed through parts ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Tuesday, the Nevada Division of State Parks, Governor Joe Lombardo, Lt. Governor Stavros Anthony, other government officials and private donors, celebrated the official ribbon ...

CANTON, Mississippi — Fossil hunter Eddie Templeton was out exploring in Mississippi when he came across a remarkable find in a steep embankment. It appeared to be part of an ice-age elephant tusk.

The Sterkfontein Caves contain more remains from Australopithecus than anywhere else on Earth. They're part of a major fossil site in South Africa known as the "Cradle of Humankind."Mark Edward Harris ...

The 470-mile-long Greenlink West transmission line could cut across a Nevada national monument that preserves the fossils of long-extinct species like the Columbian mammoth. That’s slowed down a ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

A mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...