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 ...

New research, published in Quaternary Science Reviews, has considered mammal fossils of gazelle, hare and fox from Jordan to examine these shifts in body size 24,000 to 7,500 years ago ...

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 ...