Crews uncover Ice Age megafauna fossils during a Texas Loop 88 highway project, offering a rare glimpse into the state’s ...

Few people expect digging for a road to lead to uncovering Ice Age megafauna. Before skyscrapers, cars or highways, Texas was a land of giants. A highway project in Luccock uncovered colossal ...

By physically engineering their environments, megafauna such as dinosaurs curbed fruit seed sizes—a role that now may be ...

A new study combining Indigenous knowledge systems with Western genomics has uncovered how megafauna – namely ancient horses – were impacted during a ...

What started as routine prep work for a new highway has turned into an extraordinary dig into Texas's ancient past. While surveying land for the construction of Loop 88 near Lubbock, the Texas ...

Dubbo and the Great Western Plains could be one of Australia’s most underrated natural treasures. Make it your next road trip ...

To breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences now claims to have produced three genetically engineered pups of the long-extinct dire wolf. Scientific criticism followed fast. The ...

She agrees that it’s modern—not a fossil. “Maybe a pack rat ... “One thing I’ve learned about Late Pleistocene megafauna is that they were pretty resilient,” Meachen says ...