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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Mammoth' Bones Kept in a Museum For 70 Years Turn Out to Be An Entirely Different Animal The fossilized backbones of what ...

A major breakthrough in paleontology has shifted our understanding of the woolly mammoth’s presence in North America. A 216,000-year-old mammoth tooth, discovered along the Old Crow River in the Yukon ...

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

It's Shark Week, and Mammoth Cave took the unofficial holiday to announce the discovery of another new shark species. Mammoth Cave announced the discovery of the "Macadens olsoni" Thursday. The fossil ...

A new species of ancient shark has been discovered at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, officials said. Named Macadens olsoni, the fossils were found in the Ste. Genevieve Formation, dating back ...