On September 12, 1940, a dog in France stumbled upon one of the most remarkable archaeological finds of the 20th century. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to ...

A newly discovered Triassic reptile from the UK looked more like a racing greyhound than a crocodile, built for speed on land ...

During the Ice Age, massive elephants once roamed across Europe—and new research shows they traveled surprisingly long ...

We all know dinosaurs were scary. Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the largest land carnivores of all time, weighing between 11,000 and 15,500 pounds, the equivalent of almost three adult African ...

A fossilized skull and jawbones found belonged to a crested dinosaur that lived 95 million years ago— the first new species ...

Burned crusts on ancient pottery reveal that Stone Age people cooked fish together with berries, seeds, and other plants.

In northern Spain, scientists have uncovered 152-million-year-old lizard footprints, offering new insights into prehistoric ...

A prehistoric plant distills water so intensely it looks it came from space. Researchers at the University of New Mexico have discovered that a common, prehistoric plant distills water to such an ...

A 13-foot python. A 23-foot crocodile. Saber-toothed cats and mammoths. These aren’t creatures from some far-flung corner of prehistoric Africa or South America. They once lived on Taiwan — the same ...

The area, known today for its farmland, limestone cliffs and Mammoth Cave, once resembled environments like the Bahamas, the ...

Picture this: you’re a scientist digging near the Amazon rainforest, and you pull a jawbone out of the ground that looks so ...

When we imagine prehistoric life, we often picture early humans living among every ancient creature that ever existed. In reality, many animals appeared long after early humans had disappeared or ...