A mysterious rock painting in South Africa’s cave could be the first-ever artwork of an animal that disappeared 250 million years ago. The San people’s “Horned Serpent Panel” features a strange ...

Jason M Ramos/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0 Prehistoric Earth was a terrifying place, with giant, fearsome creatures roaming an equally deadly world of erupting volcanoes and primordial swamps. Survival ...

Known as Tanyka amnicola, this lake-dweller with twisted jaws and teeth pointed outward lived in Gondwana 275 million years ...

Some of the wildest legends may actually be rooted in reality. Ancient people didn’t have science textbooks, just bones in the dirt and stories passed around the fire, and sometimes, those stories ...

Millions of years ago, a predator like spinosaurus (shown in the background of this artist's illustration) ate the filter-feeding pterosaur Barikibu waridza, and then puked up its meal, which later ...

The “mighty” new prehistoric whale species was about 40 feet long based on the fossilized bones. Tanaka, et al (2025) Palaeontologia Electronica The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI ...

Stories of ancient giants have fascinated people for centuries. Some of these legends may have been inspired by discoveries of enormous prehistoric animals and even giant apes like Gigantopithecus.

The fossil vomit was found at the Bromacker site in central Germany, one of the few sites that preserves a fully terrestrial ...

The six-part series “Walking with Dinosaurs” premieres with two episodes on Monday, June 16, on New Mexico PBS, channel 5.1. The first episode, “The Orphan,” begins at 7 p.m. and the second episode, ...

BECKET — They move in a pinnacle of vibrance — a creature with feathers and a body that was created for this moment of dance. Ari Dharminalan Rudenko and Sofyan Joyo Utomo imagine Acheroraptor — ...

The Maasai are the current residents of Engare Sero, a region in Northern Tanzania. They've shifted from the nomadic lifestyle that prehistoric humans in the area had. The Maasai are the current ...