Between 18,000 and 11,000 years ago, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere suddenly shot up . This caused rapid ...

Between 18,000 and 11,000 years ago, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere suddenly shot up . This caused rapid global warming, the mass ...

A 30,000-year-old vulture feather from Central Italy was preserved down to the microscopic level by volcanic rock.

A North Jersey professor says the university mailroom failed to pay UPS, leading to 200 fossils being dumped and his life's ...

Paleontologists have unveiled a 30,000-year-old vulture fossil in Italy, preserved in volcanic ash, showcasing microscopic ...

While the statement doesn’t name a specific mammoth species, the tusk might have belonged to a Columbian mammoth, a distant cousin of the more familiar woolly mammoth. The shaggy elephantine animal ...

In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, paleontologist Martin Becker accuses William Paterson University in Wayne of ...

Earth's last ice age ended around 11,700 years ago and a new study predicts the next one should be 10,000 years away. But the researchers say record rates of fossil fuel burning that are increasing ...

As the largest rodent ever in North America, the giant beaver also would have existed with the first people ever to settle in ...

Illinois’ commercial fossil trade is alive and well thanks to collectors who are motivated by money, science and the hunt — and who test the outer bounds of legality.

Last Saturday, while hundreds of revelers were hunting for bocks near Schell’s Brewery during Bockfest, another group was ...