Human activity may be setting the stage for the largest extinction event since the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 ...

One of the most intriguing and intricate mysteries in paleontology is the disappearance of North America's giant mammals, or megafauna, which included saber-toothed cats, mastodons, and mammoths, some ...

Few would doubt that more and more animals and plants are currently going extinct. One analysis comes to a different ...

What was once the paradigmatic catastrophe, the biblical flood, took forty days and forty nights; today’s exemplar is one big ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — The Grand Rapids Public Museum is set to unveil a nearly complete mastodon skeleton to the public on Thursday, Sept. 11, marking the culmination of three years of preservation work.