The animal kingdom is full of a variety of animals living on land, in water bodies, and the sky. But millions of years ago, ...

Researchers in the Qingliangfeng Nature Reserve in China have identified a new species of newt named Pachytriton cheni. This small-sized newt, found in remote mountain streams, is notable for its ...

When most people think of prehistoric animals, they imagine towering dinosaurs and enormous beasts dominating ancient Earth.

Researchers have unearthed a spooky pair of dinosaur mummies that seem to have been preserved in an unexpected way.

The computer modeling revealed that prehistoric humans influenced European landscapes through two primary mechanisms: deliberate burning of trees and shrubs to create more open habitats, and hunting ...

By far the largest ever found of its kind, the spiny fossil predator "would have made enough scampi to feed an army," one ...

Researchers have unearthed a spooky pair of dinosaur mummies that seem to have been preserved in an unexpected way ...

Researchers often rely on fossil teeth for clues about what extinct animals ate. Giant ground sloths’ teeth have been tricky to analyze, though – until now.

Dinosaur "mummies" couldn't have been further from my mind as I trudged up a grassy knoll on the Zerbst Ranch in east-central ...

New Zealand’s ancient bowerbird was smaller and more slender than the species living in Australia and New Guinea today.

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed ...