The discovery of ice age mammal bones — one belonging to an extinct camel and the other to either a mastodon or a mammoth (it's hard to say which) — temporarily stopped construction of Los Angeles' ...

VERNAL — Utah researchers say a prehistoric camel bone found in Uintah County nearly four decades ago is much older than initially believed, and is helping to understand better what Utah's ecosystem ...

Scientists knew the bone they found in a sand pit near Vernal 40 years ago belonged to a camel. What they didn’t know was that the camel liked the snow. A radiocarbon age taken of the shin bone ...

A giant ground sloth, Megatherium americanum, may have looked like this before it went extinct. Robert Bruce Horsfall/public domain The Americas are full of beautiful and diverse creatures, but many ...

A fossil bone found in a sand pit in the 1980s near the Green River has turned out to be much older than originally suspected. It dates back to the Ice Age. The shin bone comes from a species of camel ...

Upper fourth premolar of Camelops nitidus. See Hay, Oliver P. 1921. Descriptions of Some Pleistocene Vertebrates Found in the United States. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 58: ...

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I fell into the sinkhole when I arrived. Soaked head to toe, and the nearest laundromat 10,000 years away. Stupid me. I remember what you said: only the hard parts survive. Just the bones fossilize, ...