Thousands of 12,500-year-old rock paintings dubbed the "Sistine Chapel of the ancients" have been found in the Amazon jungle.

A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...

The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals.

Prehistoric times were pretty strange, to put it lightly, and the same could be said of the species from that period. Here ...

Riley Black’s new book, When the Earth was Green, uses the latest research to envision the ancient worlds of our favorite prehistoric animals.

“It’s almost like you can feel that the land is in pain, and you are carrying that pain in your body as well.” The destruction of parts of Ritidian Point weigh heavily on her and other Chamorro.

What is the biggest animal in the world? It is worth noting that the largest living animals in the world today aren’t land animals, because on land they must struggle against the forces of gravity to ...

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Haasiophis Haasiophis terrasanctus is an interesting prehistoric ... animals, much like modern sea snakes. Its discovery provides insight into early evolutionary transitions of reptiles from land ...

Relatives of the llama are dropping dung as they venture into higher elevations in the Andes Mountains, providing a nutrient-rich environment for life to thrive despite glacier loss. Climate ...