Largely outshone by fossils of horses, the earliest camels are getting another look from scientists determined to sort out ...

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a ...

Hippos from Central Europe were assumed to have gone extinct around 115,000 years ago when the temperate conditions of the ...

Researchers had long assumed that central European hippos went extinct at the onset of the Weichselian glaciation.

A new study shows farming and livestock reshaped global mammal communities, collapsing natural boundaries after the last Ice ...

Analysis of bone finds shows the heat-loving semi-aquatic mammals inhabited part of present-day Germany around 47,000 to ...

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such ...

"In the world of paleontology, anything this unusual is important and we feel privileged to be able to interpret them," the ...

Amid busy construction crews racing to build an airport in Mexico, scientists are unearthing more and more mammoth skeletons in what has quickly become one of the world's biggest concentrations of the ...

Hundreds of life-sized animal petroglyphs suggest that the notoriously arid region was populated around 12,000 years ago, ...

We thought hippos went extinct in Central Europe around 115,000 years ago, but new fossil finds tell a different story.

The La Brea Tar Pits are a group of natural asphalt pools in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. In the middle of ...