Archaeology Day returns to the Ross County Heritage Center on April 19. The event will run from 1 to 5 p.m., according to an announcement. This is the eighth year the Ross County Historical Society, ...

Deep in the mountains of northern Norway, scientists have uncovered the remains of 46 Ice Age species, preserved for over ...

Across the icy edges of Earth’s northern and southern reaches, life has adapted to thrive in some of the harshest conditions. Plants with frost-resistant tissues, beetles with antifreeze-like blood, ...

While the days of dire wolves and saber-toothed cats have long since passed, a new study is emerging from the sticky tar of Los Angeles, Calif.—one that is beginning to echo today's issues. This study ...

"The significance of this research will resonate for decades well beyond the scientific field," said Dr. Lori Bettison-Varga, President and Director of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles ...

The La Brea Tar Pits – home to more than 3.5 million Ice Age fossils – is one of the planet’s best-kept records of what it was like in the area we now know as Southern California over the last 60,000 ...

At the end of the last Ice Age, Southern California was teeming with giant sloths, ancient bears, saber-toothed cats, mammoths, and more. But then all at once, these giant mammals went extinct, and ...

A fossil bone found in a sand pit in the 1980s near the Green River has turned out to be much older than originally suspected. It dates back to the Ice Age. The shin bone comes from a species of camel ...

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 ...