For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected animal populations. A new study of a catastrophic volcanic eruption during ...

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 ...

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, ...

About two million years ago Earth entered the last Ice Age, known more correctly as the Pleistocene epoch. Paleo-humans coexisted with bizarre-looking Ice Age mammals like woolly mammoths, ...

VERNAL, Utah (KTVX) — A team of Utah scientists and cavers have recovered a nearly complete skeleton of a 26,000-year-old red fox deep in a cave in the state’s Uinta Mountains. It is the most complete ...

Learn how Early Paleoindians may have survived on a diet made almost entirely of mammoths, giant ground sloths, and other Ice Age mammals. Imagine trying to cross two continents with little more than ...

Archaeology Day returns to the Ross County Heritage Center on April 19. The event will run from 1 to 5 p.m., according to an announcement. This is the eighth year the Ross County Historical Society, ...

Ciara Wanket drilling for sedaDNA samples in Canada’s Yukon territory. This ash layer from the volcano eruption she studied is visible as a pale stripe in the dark permafrost sediment. For the first ...