A fossilized elephant skull found in the Kashmir Valley is reshaping how scientists understand an ancient giant’s past. Discovered in 2000 from the Karewa sediments near Pampore, the skull remained a ...

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now northern Italy. Soon after, some scavengers arrived to dine on this huge ...

Not so long ago, the trumpeting of elephants could be heard across a great deal of our planet. Wrinkly-skinned giants did not only inhabit Africa and southern Asia, but roamed from prehistoric ...

A park ranger walking through a petrified forest stumbled upon hundreds of prehistoric fossils. Greg Francek, a ranger naturalist with California's East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD), made ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Briana Pobiner, Smithsonian Institution; Sabrina Curran, Ohio University, and Virgil ...

A team of researchers, led by the University of Bristol, has uncovered that ancient fossils, thought to be some of the world's earliest examples of animal remains, could in fact belong to other groups ...

Jan 28 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than a half billion years ago, showing a deep-water ecosystem thriving in the ...