Learn more about the whale bones originally thought to be woolly mammoths' and how the hunt for the youngest mammoth continues.

Europe's missing dinosaurs mystery solved as new research shows horned dinosaurs lived on the continent but were misidentified for decades.

A team of anthropologists recently examined a collection of fossil hominin jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae that belong to hominins who probably lived very close in time to our species’ last common ancestor with Neanderthals and Denisovans. They reveal a little more about a murky but important moment in our evolutionary history.

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

Uniquely is a Merced Sun-Star series that covers the moments, landmarks and personalities that define what makes living in the Merced area so special. The Columbian mammoth once roamed through parts of Merced County thousands of years ago. The woolly ...