A mislabelled fossil, forgotten and sitting in a museum drawer for decades is actually more special than previously thought. The skull fossil belongs to an ancient species of saber-toothed cat that ...

A routine visit to a museum drawer left one paleontologist speechless when a fossil dismissed for decades turned out to ...

University of California, Berkeley researchers studying fossils found in a museum collection are now helping to clarify how ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Tens of thousands of years ago, dire wolves hunted ground sloths and camels while herds of gigantic ...

Important scientific finds don't always come in the biggest, buzziest packages. Sometimes new discoveries come in little ugly rocks. Such is the case of a 6-centimeter-wide, nondescript mass of bone ...

New biomechanical research shows Smilodon's legendary saber teeth came with a surprisingly weak bite — and reveals the real ...

Therapsids, the ancient relatives of mammals, once roamed Earth in great numbers during the middle to late Permian period. These land-dwelling creatures would later evolve into mammals, but their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s rendering of what the early saber-toothed cat, ‘Adelphailurus kansensis,’ might have looked like in its heyday 5 ...