“The ancient DNA came to our rescue to secure the specimens’ true identity,” wrote Wooller and his colleagues. It also opened ...

Now I’ve covered some exotic hunting, but this is on another level. So, apparently there is this prehistoric-bone hunter, or fossil hunter, whatever you want to call him.

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 ...

Two fossil bones long tagged as woolly mammoth have now been confirmed as whales after tests overturned their museum label.

Archaeologists uncover 13,700-year-old mammoth ivory rods in Alaska, linking early carving traditions to Clovis culture ...

On February 13, Jason Howery, a fossil hunter in Missouri, stunned viewers after hauling a massive prehistoric bone from a ...

A search and rescuer who was hunting for survivors at the site of a deadly avalanche near Lake Tahoe has spoken out from the top of the mountain. John Gilchrist revealed on Wednesday night he was at ...

A teenager's skeleton lay supine in a shallow pit on a bed of red ocher, his remains adorned with several ivory pendants, ...

One of California’s rarest and most elusive animals has been captured and collared in the southern Sierra Nevada for the ...

The speedy and delicate species is extremely wary of humans. The few remaining Sierra Nevada red foxes live in barren, rugged ...

The capture, GPS-collaring and release happened near Mammoth Lakes, marking the first time this has happened in the Sierra Nevada.

This article originally published at Only 50 of these wild canines are left. California biologists just caught one..