Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay bordering a vast prehistoric ocean. Fossils recovered from this region over ...

Uniquely is a Merced Sun-Star series that covers the moments, landmarks and personalities that define what makes living in the Merced area so special. The Columbian mammoth once roamed through parts ...

Through the analysis of quartz gravel samples from ground strata, a China-US research team has recently pushed back the date ...

Paleontologists have revealed a previously unknown species of early bird following the discovery of a remarkable "one-of-a-kind" fossil. The prehistoric species, named Navaornis hestiae, lived ...

Far below the surface of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, a flooded labyrinth of limestone tunnels has quietly guarded one of the most haunting fossil troves of the Ice Age. In the darkness of a submerged ...

A fossil bone found in a sand pit in the 1980s near the Green River has turned out to be much older than originally suspected. It dates back to the Ice Age. The shin bone comes from a species of camel ...

Ancient wolf bones are revealing how today’s wolves might survive in a warmer world. Higher temperatures in the past caused wolves to eat harder foods, suggesting major changes for wolf-dominated ...

Metabolism quietly governs every living body. It shapes how organisms grow, reproduce, heal, and age. Because metabolism links closely to body size, temperature, and diet, it also sets limits on how ...