Twelve non-dinosaur rulers show Earth’s old power: armored fish, giant insects, sky titans, sea kings, and saber teeth across ...

Resurrecting This Ancient Animal Could Do More Harm, Experts Warn ...

Learn more about ancient giant kangaroos and the previous research claiming they were too heavy to hop. A new study finds ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ...

Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...

An analysis of the bones and teeth of ancient mammoths (Mammuthus) has identified some of the microorganisms that lived in the animals’ mouths and bodies more than one million years ago. The study, ...

Millions of years ago, a predator like spinosaurus (shown in the background of this artist's illustration) ate the filter-feeding pterosaur Barikibu waridza, and then puked up its meal, which later ...

The blue whale is the largest animal known to have ever lived, reaching lengths of nearly 100 feet and weighing more than 300 ...

New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...

Ancient DNA has been pulled from a permafrost-preserved woolly mammoth found in Siberia, and scientists are thrilled. They ...

Long before the Black Death killed millions across Europe in the Middle Ages, an earlier, more elusive version of the plague spread across much of Eurasia. For years, scientists were unsure how the ...