Paleontologists have often determined how old a dinosaur was by counting the growth rings in its bones. Just like with trees, ...

Do the bones of all Nile crocodiles have the same number of growth marks as their age? And can such growth rings be counted ...

LAS VEGAS -- Construction workers unearthed a set of rare bones while digging a backyard pool in Las Vegas. KTNV reports the bones are believed to be up to 14,000 years old and date back to Earth's ...

A prehistoric discovery in northwest Missouri may be one of the rarest finds in the Midwest; a local paleontologist uncovered a mammoth bone, taking us back to the ice age when giants roamed the Show ...

A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

An analysis of two theropod dinosaur fossils has shown that they had a type of carpal bone (pisiform) in their wrists—a bone considered important to flight in birds. Subscribe to our newsletter for ...

Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania boasts sediment layers dating back to about 1.8 million years ago. Those layers contain simple stone tools that marked one of the earliest recorded technological ...

A paleontologist has uncovered a huge mammoth bone dating back to the Ice Age in a rare discovery in northwest Missouri.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Monument staff work on excavated dinosaur fossils in the Quarry Exhibit Hall Parking Lot. Located on the Colorado-Utah border at ...

It's been thousands of years since the woolly mammoths that used to roam the Northern Hemisphere went extinct. However, their former habitat is still ...