For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

Before today’s wildlife, the world was home to towering animal giants that would leave us in awe. From enormous marsupials to prehistoric predators, these forgotten creatures were bigger, stronger, ...

Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.

For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...

You might think that after 200 million years, we would have learned all we're ever going to know about plesiosaurs. Such is ...

Researchers have analyzed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin. This was likely so it ...

A small team of archaeologists, geologists, paleontologists and climate scientists has found that at least one type of ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...