The groundwater flowing through the subterranean cave systems of central Texas are vital for both farming and daily life.

Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-sized, tree-dwelling creature hanging from a branch. Today's sloths—commonly featured on children's backpacks, stationery and lunch boxes—are slow-moving ...

Every fossil tells a story, and some have the power to rewrite entire chapters of our understanding of prehistoric life. Over the past few decades, dinosaur fossils have changed from being just rare ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Manatee County utilities crew was digging a trench recently when it unearthed something unexpected: a fossilized giant ground ...

LUBBOCK, Texas – While surveying for road construction on May 13, workers unearthed something unexpected. According to a news release from TxDOT, an archeological survey in Lubbock unearthed the bones ...

(CNN) — With distinctive two-fingered claws, the remains of a previously unknown species of dinosaur suggest it looked like a bizarre mix of sloth, giraffe and cult movie hero Edward Scissorhands, ...

Apple TV is taking viewers back in time. The streaming service announced its latest series, Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, and shared a new trailer for the natural history series with PEOPLE. "For two ...

Larisa R. G. DeSantis received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and Vanderbilt University. DeSantis is also a research associate at the La Brea Tar Pits and ...