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Albuquerque museum curator helps identify Speleotherium logani, a previously unknown muskox relative that roamed the region ...

Mammoth bones weren’t just leftovers from the hunt, they were the walls of survival in a freezing prehistoric world.

Scientists have uncovered ancient wolf remains on a small Baltic island where wolves could only have been brought by humans.

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New data shows Ice Age hunters used Mezhyrich’s mammoth-bone shelters briefly, highlighting adaptations in a volatile, frigid ...

Seals are semi-aquatic marine mammals. They’re also known as pinnipeds, which means ‘fin-footed’, referring to the large flippers they have for arms and legs. Combined with their streamlined, ...