Researchers identified the fossil as Glyptodon reticulatus, a megafauna species from the Late Pleistocene epoch.

Earth's climate changed dramatically during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene 130,000 to 7,000 years ago, when cold glacial cycles transitioned into the current warmer interglacial. Such a ...

VERY nearly a year ago Prof. O. C. Marsh, of Yale College, announced the discovery of a new order of Mammalia, the Dinocerata, huge elephantine forms, with three pairs of horns and large canine ...

A large number of stone tools and mammal fossils were found at the site. Many of the various stone tools were well preserved. The tools were mainly made from quartz and vein quartz. The types of ...

Researchers have found a fossilized ancestor of modern seals and sea lions that they say represents an evolutionary step in the organisms' transition from land-dwelling mammals to the aquatic ...

Serendipity brought the sea mammal to the Redwood City-based museum ... when they heard from officials at the history museum. The fossil will be part of a natural history gallery expected to ...