"Prehistoric World" is a new book by Aaron Woodruff, the museum's collection manager for vertebrate paleontology. It includes profiles and illustrations of prehistoric mammals such as Livyatan ...

We’d found a mammoth vertebra, just a centrum,” recalled Julie Meachen, a professor at Des Moines University Medicine and Health Sciences in Iowa. Since 2014, when Meachen and other scientists got the ...

Researchers surround the fully uncovered mammoth scapula, which is broken, in Natural Trap Cave in Wyoming's Bighorn Basin in ...

A Dec. 4 article about fossils of previously unknown mammal species discovered in Africa incorrectly identified tigers as members of modern Africa's native fauna. There are no native wild tigers in ...

Prehistoric mammals used dark fur to survive the age of dinosaurs, study finds No bold stripes, striking spots, or golden ...

VERNAL — A previously unknown muskrat-sized mammal species that once roamed this area when the Intermountain West looked more like a swampland millions of years ago has been discovered through a ...

A university student on a fossil-hunting field trip in Dorset made a stunning discovery: a 145-million-year-old jawbone belonging to a previously unknown mammal species with razor-like teeth. With the ...

A treasure trove of Illinois' living history is waiting to be discovered "Around the 217" at the Illinois State Museum in Springfield.

A New York homeowner made a remarkable discovery in their backyard last September. The teeth from a complete mastodon jaw were peaking out of the soil. The stunning find near the hamlet of Scotchtown ...

The world's oldest known mammal has been identified using dental records – predating what scientists previously thought was the first mammal to walk the Earth by millions of years – according to new ...