But its size offered plenty of protection, as these prehistoric animals outweighed ... The saber-toothed cats likely preyed ...

Its massive, blade-like canine teeth delivered lethal bites to prey like bison and mammoths ... its sheer size and aggression made it a terrifying presence in the prehistoric Americas.

Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been ...

What it tells us about the past: This prehistoric carving, discovered inside a cave in France, depicts a steppe wisent (Bison priscus ... Despite its small size — roughly 4 inches (10.5 ...

Popular depictions of prehistoric hunts tend to show ... saber tooths and giant bears that are twice the size of grizzlies, mastodons and bison,” Scott Byram, a stone tool specialist at the ...

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Recently analyzed fossils finally confirm a longtime paleontological theory: Flying squirrels the size of domesticated ... which lured prehistoric mammal species east after crossing the Bering ...

Also, mammoths, prehistoric bison, horses, American camels, and giant ground sloths. We know this because in 2010, a construction crew working in Snowmass' Ziegler Reservoir unearthed a mammoth bone.