In the Karoo Basin of South Africa, an unusual tusked beast is painted on a rock wall. Archaeologists have previously ...

During the Late Pleistocene, an epoch lasting from around 130,000 to 12,000 years ago, Cyprus was home to only two species of ...

The sawfish is a type of ray closely related to sharks, and it's easily identified by its hedge-trimmer-like snout. The ...

Scientists have unraveled a mystery about the disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the picturesque ...

The Clovis culture was a prehistoric Native American people that lived roughly 13,000 years ago in North America near the end ...

“ Longipteryx is one of my favorite fossil birds, because it’s just so weird—it has this long skull, and teeth only at the ...

Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit ...

The animal was a thylacine, more commonly known as a Tasmanian tiger. Thousands of the predator called the island home when ...

"Let's go back 11,000 years, the wildlife was completely different." Mastodons, mammoths, saber tooth tigers, bison, giant ...

In the rugged landscapes of South Africa, ancient rock art panels created by the San people—one of the region's earliest ...

The discoveries include sharks, shorebirds, mammals and saber-toothed salmon, with the oldest remains dating to almost nine ...

"I thought this stuff was something that never happens especially around here," student Taya Olson said. "It only happens in ...