A forgotten skull kept in a museum collection for generations has just revealed a surprising secret about one of South ...

In a fascinating turn of events, geologist William Warren Orcutt uncovered ancient animal bones within asphalt deposits, ...

Miocene South America was packed with giant prey—and the predators hunting them were just as spectacular. Fossil bite marks ...

The curious minds at What If explore what the world would be like if giant sloths didn't go extinct. Is sleeping without underwear better for you? Doctors weigh in Halle Berry is unrecognizable in ...

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Patrick Damp is a web producer for CBS Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh native who grew up watching KDKA-TV, Patrick studied journalism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After half a decade in sports ...

Here's a fact we bet you didn't know. During the Pleistocene geological epoch, which started 2.58 million years ago and ended around the time of the last ice age (11,700 years ago), avocados survived ...

Florida has introduced new rules for sloth ownership following the deaths of dozens of sloths at the defunct Sloth World attraction in Orlando. WESH 2 received a copy of the updated policy from state ...

The most insane and detailed simulation in gaming is preparing a true sensation—a prehistoric revolution. Twenty years after the release of the original version, the developers at Bay 12 Games and ...

ELEANOR -- Even though it's summer break, children learned some fascinating facts at the Eleanor Library on Friday as Kevin Adkins, of Red House, told them about the 11,000-year-old Megalonyx ...

There are haunted houses, and then there are places where actual death happened on a massive scale over thousands of years. Big Bone Lick State Historic Site in Union, Kentucky, falls firmly into the ...