A new genomic study has uncovered long-lost genetic diversity in mammoth lineages spanning over a million years, providing new insights into the evolutionary history of these animals.

Biologists are studying a rare species of bat found at Mammoth Cave National Park that could hold the secret to warding off White Nose Syndrome, a fungal disease that has decimated bat species ...

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Twin Caves, about 5 miles northeast of Marianna, is a popular diving destination at the bottom of Merritt’s Mill Pond, according to Caveatlas.com. Oliver J Albrecht YouTube video screengrab One ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, mammoths and rhinoceros into the walls, a fabulous prehistoric menagerie ...

While hunting in West Texas, a deer hunter spotted a strange object in a creek bed. Suspecting it might be a fossil, he took a photo and showed it to a ranch manager. “I was skeptical,” O2 ...

Paleontologists at Mammoth Cave National Park have unearthed an ancient shark species previously unknown to science. Researchers at Mammoth Cave National Park have uncovered a small, but significant ...

Researchers carefuly wrapped the tusk in strips of plaster-covered burlap for protection. Devin Pettigrew / Center for Big Bend Studies A hunter was out looking for deer at a private ranch in West ...

As if the 2020s weren’t weird enough, we might see woolly mammoths pounding across the tundra by this decade’s close. Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based biotechnology and genetic engineering ...

The Department of Education’s mammoth $41.2 billion budget plan for next year is a whopping third of the entire city’s — but it still won’t be enough, school officials claimed Thursday.

Another new species of ancient shark has been discovered at Mammoth Cave National Park.According to a post from the park, an ongoing Paleontological Resource Inventory discovered the new species ...

Researchers at Mammoth Cave National Park have uncovered a small, but significant addition to their ongoing Paleontological Resource Inventory (PRI) with the discovery of a previously unknown Chipmunk ...