Researchers have discovered the oldest-known wooly mammoth fossil in North America and uncovered its genetic secrets, according to a new study. The 216,000-year-old tooth, found along the Old Crow ...

North America's mammoth species were breeding together within the past 40,000 years. Fossil teeth found in Canada show that Columbian and wooly mammoths regularly had calves together where the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. McGinnis' nail tooth (Clavusodens mcginnisi) depicted hunting a crustation in a reef-like ...

Another new species of ancient shark has been discovered at Mammoth Cave National Park.According to a post from the park, an ongoing Paleontological Resource Inventory discovered the new species while ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In the downtown ivory shops, alongside whale baleen baskets and walrus tusk statuettes, tourists finger curios made from the fossils of shaggy Ice Age beasts that died on the ...

MAMMOTH CAVE, Ky. — A new-to-science species of ancient shark was recently discovered in Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. The Macadens olsoni is known for its unique tooth whorl, a curved row ...

About 340 million years ago, a tiny shark swam in the waters of the world’s longest cave system in Kentucky, its unusual mouth curved in a way that will ultimately end up defining its future legacy.

A jogger was left 'jumping for joy' after finding a rare 80,000-year-old baby mammoth tooth while out on a beach morning run. Lucy Parkes, who regularly hunts for fossils along the beach between ...

Mammoth Cave National Park’s rich history of paleontological finds has now expanded with the discovery of a new species of ancient shark. The shark, named Macadens olsoni, is known for its unique ...

Researchers have discovered a new-to-science species of ancient shark during an ongoing paleontological resource inventory at Mammoth Cave National Park. The new species of obruchevodid petalodont, ...