Some of the wildest legends may actually be rooted in reality. Ancient people didn’t have science textbooks, just bones in ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

Learn how researchers used mass spectrometry of collagen to successfully identify some of Australia's megafauna.

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

The outer skeleton is so thick that researchers noted "an exceptional amount of force was required" to mount specimens. They ...

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

They've extracted fragments of enamel proteins from the teeth of fossils of the species Paranthropus robustus and used them ...

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

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 ...

A prehistoric discovery near Hays is shedding some new light on a giant ground sloth species that lived more than 10,000 ...

After 128 years of exploration and fossil excavation, researchers have finally unearthed the skull of Genyornis newtoni.

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