One of the most intriguing and intricate mysteries in paleontology is the disappearance of North America's giant mammals, or megafauna, which included saber-toothed cats, mastodons, and mammoths, some ...

In the first of a new series, curator Dr Neil Adams shares the stories and science of the fossil mammal collection.

Prehistoric humans hunt a woolly mammoth. More and more research shows that this species – and at least 46 other species of megaherbivores – were driven to extinction by humans. The debate has raged ...

A recent excavation in Texas yielded some “colossal creatures,” according to local officials – and archaeologists are hopeful more will be uncovered soon. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT ...

Some nights, when I should be doing something sensible or useful, I end up looking at pictures of blue whales and feeling very, very tiny. We talk a lot about the megafauna that are gone – mammoths, ...