A paleontologist snorkeling through the dark underwater passages of a Texas cave made a startling discovery: the streambed ...

Growing up, I was obsessed with the 2002 movie Ice Age. I watched it day in and day out, captivated by the adventures of ...

A paleontologist from The University of Texas at Austin has discovered the fossilized remains of Ice Age animals that have ...

Learn about the assemblage of fossils discovered at a water cave in central Texas, shedding light on Ice Age megafauna that ...

Two companion papers published in Nature have identified the oldest genomes ever recovered from domestic dogs, tracing a single ancestral population that spread across western Eurasia between 18,500 ...

The floor of Bender’s Cave looked like a graveyard. Fossils spread across the submerged stream bed in every direction, packed tightly enough that paleontologist John Moretti could barely move without ...

The fossils were found in a cave with an underwater stream, where they were simply picked up from the streambed.

Scientists have confirmed using full genome analysis that dogs were already living as human companions over 14,000 years ago.

John Moretti, a paleontologist at the University of Texas at Austin, discovered the fossilized remains of Ice Age animals ...

The bond between humans and dogs is one of nature's most enduring partnerships, but exactly when it began has long been a mystery. Now, a new study has turned back the clock. The study, titled "Dogs ...

Now, large DNA studies have shed light on the historic origins of our closest pets, creating a fable-like explanation for ...