Uncover the ancient history of Big Bone Lick State Park in Union, Kentucky. Learn how this fossil-rich salt lick became the ...

The giant ground sloth was given its scientific name Megalonyx jeffersonii by the US’s third president and founding father ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many ...

If large creatures like elephants, giraffes and bison are allowed to thrive, they could alter habitats that allow for the ...

For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground sloths through hunting, along with many other massive animals like mastodons ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some of the oldest direct evidence of parasitic relationships between fungi ...

Sloth. Image via Openverse. Three-toed sloths (genus Bradypus) engage in perhaps the most baffling bathroom behavior in the animal kingdom. Approximately once a week, these creatures laboriously ...

In 2015, two members of the Blue Beach Fossil Museum in Nova Scotia found a long, curved fossil jaw, bristling with teeth. Sonja Wood, the museum's owner, and Chris Mansky, the museum's curator ...