In NBC’s La Brea, streaming now on Peacock, a sinkhole opens up beneath the titular L.A. tar pits, swallowing up everything (including people) unfortunate enough to be standing atop it. That sinkhole ...

One of the most intriguing and intricate mysteries in paleontology is the disappearance of North America's giant mammals, or megafauna, which included saber-toothed cats, mastodons, and mammoths, some ...

Scientists are continuing to strengthen the case that a fragmented comet exploded in Earth's atmosphere nearly 13,000 years ...

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major ...

The La Brea tar pits captured dire wolves, sabertooth cats, and other megafaunal for millennia. Their fossils may show an extinction event 13,000 years ago. Some researchers blame human-set fires for ...

Massive tunnels have been discovered in South America, but what animal made them? Learn about the tunnels created by ...

Once upon a time, our world was home to many giants. Between around 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, nearly 200 of the world's largest animal species disappeared forever, leaving nothing but their ...

Fungal spores found in the dung of Pleistocene megafauna reveal that large animals in the Colombian Andes went extinct in two “waves” Shiny Mottlegill (Panaeolus semiovatus), a species of coprophilous ...

Fungal spores found in dung have revealed that large animals went extinct in two "waves" in the Colombian Andes. Spores of coprophilous fungi pass through the guts of megafauna (animals over 45kg) as ...

Sudden deaths : the chronology of terminal Pleistocene megafaunal extinction / Stuart Fiedel -- Estimates of Clovis-era megafaunal populations and their extinction risks / Gary Haynes -- Paleobiology ...

Fungal spores found in dung have revealed that large animals went extinct in two 'waves' in the Colombian Andes. Fungal spores found in dung have revealed that large animals went extinct in two "waves ...