Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...

Paleontologists spent decades trying to explain "Devil's corkscrews," the bizarre spiral-shaped fossils found in Wyoming and ...

This video was originally posted to TikTok in April 2021. Quetzalcoatlus was a huge prehistoric flying animal. But if it was ...

How big could land animals really get? Explore the incredible sizes of dinosaurs and the science behind their gigantism. From skeletal structure to metabolism, understand what allowed these creatures ...

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

Chinese researchers have identified a new species of dicynodont — an extinct group of mammalian species that appeared long before the dinosaurs — challenging past paleontological assumptions about ...

Prototaxites fossils unearthed in Scotland that will be exhibited in the National Museums Scotland is believed to belong to gigantic organisms ...

Environmental groups and tribes are growing increasingly worried that some protections could be stripped from Grand Staircase ...

Step into Arizona’s ancient past and see the actual footprints left by prehistoric giants in this remote, awe-inspiring ...

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

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems. In the aftermath, jawed vertebrates gained an unexpected edge by surviving ...

A hand stencil left on an Indonesian cave wall at least 67,800 years ago may reveal how and when ancient humans reached a ...