Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

The cave had been flagged by a local spelunker who simply wanted to know what he'd found. But among the dozens of Ice Age ...

If you grab the ancient musk ox by the horns, you just might find a new genus and species. A New Mexico fossil has been determined to be a new genus and species of an ice age relative of the musk ox.

Fossils from giant tortoises, armadillos and other Ice Age-era species challenge previous assumptions about the region’s ...

With a wetsuit and goggles, paleontologist John Moretti searches for fossils in the stream that flows through Bender's Cave ...

An Albuquerque museum curator was part of a team that identified a new species related to the muskox — one that roamed thousands of years ago and found its final resting place in what's now known as ...

A discovery in Egypt is upending everything we know about the origins of the great apes, including that of humans. While scientists have long concentrated their efforts in East Africa, a fossil ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. (KRQE) – A team of researchers has identified an Ice Age relative of the muskox from fossils uncovered in Carlsbad Caverns National Park. The new species, named Speleotherium logani, ...

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