Smithsonian contributing writer Michael Ray Taylor about what rappelling into Natural Trap Cave reveals about its contents ...

Isolation allows creatures to thrive as their relatives perish due to the threats present on much larger landmasses ...

These unique animals evolved as long as two million years ago. Caribou were already present by the time humans arrived to cross the Bering land bridge and were surely a big part of their diets ...

Once on land, animals expanded into an assortment of shapes designed for running, flying, hopping, and crawling. The rise of dinosaurs kicked off during the Triassic period, around 230 million ...

The article delved into ancient species like Dendrogramma, Coelacanth, and Emperor Scorpion, which have survived for hundreds of millions of years. These animals offer insights into life's history ...

While the most massive animals on land are African elephants, the aquatic mammals are many times larger again. An adult blue whale , the largest animal to ever live, weighs around 180,000kg – or ...

Study Reveals How Neanderthals Hunted Prehistoric Animals Larger Than Mammoth ... were the largest land mammals of their time, dwarfing modern elephants (weighing 6.8 metric tons on average).

They are likely Florida’s tallest land mammal, according to the Florida Museum, standing about 13-feet-tall at the shoulder and an additional 5 or 6 feet for the neck. Where fossils were found : ...

These animals are well-adapted to watery habitats but can’t move well on land because their leg muscles are too weak, so they slide on their bellies to get around above water.

It’s worth noting that the name “Bering Land Bridge” is often misleading. The landscape was not a literal bridge that necessarily compelled ancient humans and animals to cross it—it was a ...