From the Gold Rush to World War II to the rise of Silicon Valley, the Bay Area’s history is rich, varied, often problematic ...

From the Gold Rush to World War II to the rise of Silicon Valley, the Bay Area’s history is rich, varied, often problematic ...

Mastodon bones are rare discoveries, but Orange County, N.Y., has proved to be a national hotbed for these extraordinary ...

Mastodon bones dating back some 13,000 years now sit in the New York State Museum in Albany. They were recently found in the backyard of an Orange County, New York home.

Australian and US scientists discovered a new species of prehistoric snapping turtle after re-examining an unidentified fossil on display in a Northern Territory museum. The new species, called ...

Six months ago, a team of paleontologists investigated a quarry in Oxfordshire, England, that had some unusual bumps in its floor. The bumps, as it turns out, constitute about 200 dinosaur ...

The humerus of a modern human, left, that of the "Ushikawa man" within the box and those from a bear (the three on the right) are seen in a comparative image provided by the department of human ...

As we wind toward the year's end we often find ourselves thinking about the future, but sometimes it takes a rare nugget from the past to make strides in academia. Take fossils, a dizzying ...

A New York couple made an incredible prehistoric find 13,000 years old in their backyard while mowing the lawn: several fossils belonging to a mastodon. Now Dr. Robert Feranec, Director of Research & ...

A remarkable discovery has emerged from the mere backyard of a home in Scotchtown, New York: a complete mastodon jaw, along with several other bone fragments, is believed to date back approximately 13 ...