It is one of the most astonishing fossil discoveries of recent years - a graveyard of whales found beside the Pan-American Highway in Chile. And now scientists think they can explain how so many ...

Known as the mammoth graveyard, the site at Cerney Wick near ... to date back to around 220,000 years ago. Other significant fossils found this time have been Neanderthal hand axes, ancient ...

Archaeologists have discovered that prehistoric humans butchered an unusual species of elephant 300,000-400,000 years ago.

"In these 'graveyards' today, you will commonly find ... If you are wondering how fossils are dated, there are a few easy ways to do it, according to the American Museum of Natural History.

A breakthrough fossil discovery is changing what we know about some of the largest mammals to ever walk the Earth.

"This species of scallop has been extinct for almost 2 million years," the poster from North Carolina told Newsweek.