What happened to all the megafauna? From moas to mammoths, many large animals went extinct between 50 and 10,000 years ago.

Researchers analyzed fossils and DNA to get a big-picture view of sloth evolution and determine what drove their immense size ...

Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

The species exists only on a single island. Researchers stunned after rediscovering thought-to-be-extinct 'living fossil' in ...

When a student stumbles on a fossil that turns out to be over 30,000 years old, it changes the way science is seen – not as ...

The massive megalodon was not hunting only large marine mammals such as whales as researchers widely thought, a new study of ...

The previously unnamed species of elasmosaur is being called Traskasaura sandrae in honour of Mike Trask, who in 1988 ...

A rare fossil discovery in Antarctica has upended scientific understanding of ancient marine reptiles. Buried beneath 68 million years of sediment, a soft-shelled egg as big as a football has emerged ...