La Brea Tar Pits – the only urban, active ice age excavation site in world – gets a mammoth face lift for the first time in nearly 50 years ...

A paleontologist snorkeling through an underwater Texas cave stumbled onto something nobody expected: fossils of giant tortoises, saber-tooth cats and armadillo relatives that had never been ...

A new species of mosasaur — one of the largest marine reptiles ever documented ...

A hidden source of Ice Age history has turned up at a water-filled cave in Texas, where a paleontologist discovered dozens of ancient fossils. Water caves throughout the state, home to active ...

The iconic L.A. museum and active excavation site is shutting down for major upgrades. Last day to visit is July 6.

COMAL COUNTY, Texas - A discovery deep underground in Central Texas is challenging what scientists thought they knew about the region’s ancient past. Inside a cave in Comal County, researchers have ...

An old fossil discovery is providing new information to scientists nearly 40 years later. A fossil bone found in a sand pit near Vernal, Utah, in the 1980s has turned out to be an older-than-expected ...

Remnants of a lion-sized armadillo dating back to the Ice Age have been discovered resting on the riverbed of a half-submerged cave 40 feet below the surface of Comal County. It’s a sight straight out ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A discovery in Central Texas is challenging what scientists know about the region's pre-historic past. Fossils uncovered deep ...