Many people assume that horses first came to the Americas when Spanish explorers brought them here about 500 years ago. In fact, recent research has confirmed a European origin for horses associated ...

Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what would become Florida. That sinkhole in the state’s wooded Big Bend region ...

Two fossil hunters dropped into a Florida river that looked like brewed coffee and came back with a time capsule. What ...

Paleontologist Aisling Farrell holds a mummified frozen horse limb recovered from a placer gold mine in the Klondike goldfields in Yukon Territory, Canada. Ancient DNA recovered from horse fossils ...

Jim Tynsky of Kemmerer is shown with the 50-million-year-old fossil hyracotherium, an early form of horse, which he found last fall in the dry bed of Fossil Lake. KEMMERER (AP) - Wyoming has lots of ...

Paleontologist Aisling Farrell holds a mummified frozen horse limb recovered from a placer gold mine in the Klondike goldfields in Yukon Territory, Canada. Ancient DNA recovered from horse fossils ...

Workers building a new swimming pool for a Las Vegas couple got a bit of a shock when they dug up a set of bones that are believed to date back to the Ice Age and may have been buried there for 14,000 ...

What do horses, armadillos, sloths, and tapirs all have in common? They're all animals, sure. They're all mammals, too. But ...

Ancient cave paintings that seemed to depict make-believe white-spotted horses might have been drawn from real life, scientists now find. The cave paintings of the Stone Age are not only among the ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

The earliest known horses lived in North America more than 50 million years ago. These were tiny animals, about the size of a small dog. They had four tiny hooves on each front foot, and three on each ...

Workers found the bones, which could be up to 14,000 years old, during the construction of a pool. By Christina Morales While digging in Matthew Perkins’s backyard last week in Las Vegas to build a ...