Steven Zhang A giant skull from a straight-tusked elephant known as the Palaeoloxodon was dug out from the quarry in 2000, followed by a cache of fossils and stone tools used by ancient humans.

With so many ancient trees killed, the National Park Service has sprouted hundreds of sequoia ... Most of the seedlings will die, eventually leaving only one or two giant trees centuries from now.

It is readily evident that humanity holds a tight grip on the Earth 's climate and its diverse species today. But this might also have been true for tens of thousands of years, our species has ...

But P. brasiliensis was heavier than the La Venta giant, weighing more than 397 pounds (180 kilograms). A curator at the Museo La Tormenta in Colombia discovered the leg bone in the Tatacoa Desert ...