Prehistoric fossils dating back to the Ice Age discovered in South Louisiana. What prehistoric animals used to roam Louisiana?

For years, the extinction of megafauna – from moas to mammoths – has been a captivating mystery. Between 10,000 and 50,000 years ago, many of these magnificent creatures vanished.

Long ago, approximately 2.6 million years ago during the Ice Age, prehistoric animals roamed throughout the U.S., including Louisiana. Prehistoric megafauna like the mastodon, which were large ...

Fossil remains of Titanoboa cerrejonensis, a 58-million-year-old snake, have been discovered in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine ...

Ten thousand years after mastodons disappeared, scientists have unearthed powerful fossil evidence proving these elephant cousins were vital seed spreaders for large-fruited trees in South America.

A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

But surviving fossils are often too fragmented to determine the original species, and DNA is not always recoverable, especially in hot or damp environments. Now scientists have isolated collagen ...

Ice Age fossils found at highway dig. TxDOT says megafauna remains are not uncommon for the area, in Lubbock, which is in a region that's home to many remnants of Ice Age lakes called "playas." ...

Long ago, approximately 2.6 million years ago during the Ice Age, prehistoric animals roamed throughout the U.S., including Louisiana. Prehistoric megafauna like the mastodon, which were large ...

Ice Age fossils found at highway dig TxDOT says megafauna remains are not uncommon for the area, in Lubbock, which is in a region that's home to many remnants of Ice Age lakes called "playas." ...