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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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