Sometimes there is a method to my development of an idea for a column. Sometimes I’m scrolling through news items and see the ...

About 65 million years ago, dinosaurs lumbered through forests. After they went extinct, things changed — and the effects are ...

Gaylene Thomas, a wildlife care manager at the San Diego Zoo, oversees two teams that care for a variety of species, ...

Avocados are true superfoods: dense, buttery scoops of vitamins, fat and fiber, all in a hand-size package. We worked for a long time to make them this way. According to a paper published Monday in ...

Fossilized teeth from two ancient megafauna suggest they roamed Brazil 3,500 years ago. The find “opens the door to rewrite South American history.” ...

But it’s natural for our ecosystem to host huge animals like mammoths, mastodons and giant ground sloths, Doughty said. They evolved in concert with the species, landscapes and systems of our ...

This left them exposed along the riverbed. Giant ground sloths are a regular feature in Florida paleontology, and the Steinhatchee site is no exception.CREDIT: Florida Museum/Kristen Grace.

This now-drowned coastal plain was home to Columbian mammoths, giant ground sloths, caribou — and people. Stand on our beach, gaze west and picture a realm out to the horizon — a complex ...