Andrewsarchus is often described as the largest carnivorous land mammal of all time, but the evidence is surprisingly thin. This video examines what scientists actually know based on a single massive ...

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

Towering crocodilians that could rival buses in length once patrolled vast river systems cutting through what is now the ...

The world is a far stranger place than we often give it credit for, and sometimes the truth is more bizarre than the wildest ...

A team of researchers from the Archaeological Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague has discovered an ancient megalithic collective burial site at the Wadi Nafun monument in Oman. The ...

Long before humans walked the planet, a massive creature ruled the forests and open plains of ancient Eurasia. Paraceratherium, a hornless giant and a distant relative of today’s rhinoceroses, lived ...

Aware that palaeontology’s pace quickly rendered old interpretations obsolete, Cope and Marsh made only limited attempts to ...

North Carolina stretches from misty mountain peaks to sun-warmed beaches, creating a playground for adventurers who crave ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists have unearthed the largest village ever discovered in prehistoric Britain and Ireland, and it’s rewriting Bronze ...

The study, recently published in the journal Antiquity, detailed the discovery of a prehistoric settlement from the Late Bronze Age which contains 600 homes spread within the Brusselstown Ring ...

It contains more than 600 homes. Archaeologists uncovered Ireland’s largest prehistoric settlement, dated 1200–400 B.C., with 600 homes. Evidence suggests a tightly organized, egalitarian community ...

While dinosaurs are often seen as the most impressive creatures to have lived on Earth, several fascinating animals thrived ...