For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was like during the Pleistocene ...

An Albuquerque museum curator was part of a team that identified a new species related to the muskox — one that roamed thousands of years ago and found its final resting place in what's now known as ...

Amateur paleontologist Jason Howery discovered the 92-pound femur of an Ice Age mammoth in a lake in Nodaway County, Missouri.

This piece is part of a special project on deep time examining what the Western U.S. was like thousands, millions and even billions of years ago, and how that history is still visible and ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. (KRQE) – A team of researchers has identified an Ice Age relative of the muskox from fossils uncovered in Carlsbad Caverns National Park. The new species, named Speleotherium logani, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A piece of sewn animal hide found in an Eastern Oregon cave may be one of the oldest known pieces of sewn clothing, dating back to the late Ice Age, archaeologists say. In a ...

Snowmass Tourism and the Aspen Science Center (ASC) launched a guided Snowmass Ice Age Discovery tour to bring a new experience to the village’s 2010 Ice Age discovery. At 1 p.m. every Tuesday, an ...