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

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 ...

Discover the untold stories of Earth's mass extinctions through NBC's new series Surviving Earth, premiering June 4. Get a ...

The femur bone, found on the beach at Bay Head in January, was taken to the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum for identification.

When the asteroid ended the age of non-avian dinosaurs, it cleared ecological space on a global scale. Small survivors ...

This circuitous tale, that connects a massive bison bull across 140 years of American history, begins in 1886 when getting a ...

The death of this ancient species, discovered alongside more newly described mammals, had been greatly exaggerated.

A woolly mammoth nicknamed Myfanwy roamed Anglesey 15,000 years ago, radiocarbon dating has revealed. Scientists believe the ...

Scientists have a clearer picture of what Anglesey looked like 15,000 years ago thanks to analysis of Myfanwy the mammoth's fossil.

This circuitous tale, that connects a massive bison bull across 140 years of American history begins in 1886, when getting a message across Montana was a life-threatening task.

Deep beneath the shifting sea ice of the Arctic Ocean, a massive marine mammal moves slowly through waters that remain near ...

The museum underwent hardship in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the high operational costs led the city to consider ...