About 250 million years ago, as life was recovering from Earth’s greatest mass extinction, some reptiles began to change ...

With dagger-like claws, powerful legs, and a notoriously aggressive temperament, the cassowary earns its title as the most dangerous bird on Earth. Native to the forests of Australia and New Guinea, ...

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 ...

A fossilized tooth unearthed in Brazil reveals a fearsome apex predator that once ruled prehistoric swamplands—an ancient ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Researchers reveal that a 66-million-year-old “dinosaur mummy” wasn’t preserved skin but a thin clay film that perfectly ...

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

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

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.