In a case of mistaken identity, fossils from two whales were disguised as the backbones of a woolly mammoth. The fossilized ...

A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the ...

For decades, two small bone pieces sat quietly in a museum drawer in Alaska, labelled as mammoth remains and largely ...

For 70 years, fossils in Alaska were thought to be mammoths. New tests reveal they are ancient whales, rewriting museum ...

Today, rock wallabies are seen as secretive cliff-dwellers that rarely stray far from the safety of their rocky shelters. But ...

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by researchers from La Trobe University in Australia and the University of Cambridge ...

Bones thought to be world's youngest mammoths for 70 years turn out to be whales. DNA reveals shocking truth about Alaska ...

The newsstands in subway stations have largely become a thing of the past. Rex's Dino Store at Grand Army Plaza in Park Slope ...

President Donald Trump’s vision of using Venezuela’s oil reserves to build a 21st-century American empire relies on a key ...

The president’s embrace of fossil fuels and withdrawal from the global fight against climate change will make it hard to keep ...

New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier ...

Crown Center is offering families a chance to explore the world of dinosaurs with a new interactive exhibit opening later ...