The longest mapped network of caves in the world also contains one of the most implausible marine collections in North America. In Mammoth Cave, sharks and their kinsmen are preserved in layers of ...

Deep beneath Kentucky, scientists have uncovered something no one expected, perfectly preserved predators from an ancient sea hidden for over 300 million years.

Mammoth Cave National Park, home to the world’s longest known cave system, stretches for more than 680 kilometres, and ...

Deep inside the world’s longest cave system, scientists have uncovered two terrifying extinct predators that once prowled a ...

In the first of a new series, curator Dr Neil Adams shares the stories and science of the fossil mammal collection.

Explore the groundbreaking efforts to reverse extinction at the Dubai summit, where Colossal Biosciences aims to bring back ...

Another parent chaperone, Chad Curry, joined his fourth grader Izaire Curry on Wednesday’s trip. Curry said he grew up visiting the Peabody in the late 1980s and fondly remembered the woolly mammoth — ...

Complete fossil skeletons of two ice age mammals — a woolly mammoth and woolly rhino — are being erected in the atrium of the state office complex Downtown at 400 W. Congress St. You can visit them ...

A 400-million-year-old jawed fish fossil found in the Arctic, Romundina gagnieri, could be a key link in the evolution of ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

Flying is really hard work. Compared to walking, swimming, or running, flying is the form of movement that takes the most energy and requires the most calories. That means that birds have had to ...

A fossil jaw found in Ethiopia shows Paranthropus ranged far north, challenging long-held ideas about early human relatives ...