Long before mammals dominated the land and even before the most famous dinosaurs appeared, Earth was home to a wide variety ...

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

The study's findings indicate that these giant elephants were not stationary creatures. Strontium isotope analyses, which act as a "travel diary" preserved in tooth enamel, showed that some ...

Forests were growing on the now-submerged landmass of Doggerland thousands of years earlier than previously believed, ...

Researchers have identified fossil evidence of a giant python — estimated to exceed 13 feet in length — that once lived on ...

Brazilian scientists have identified a new species of giant dinosaur with ties to a similar animal found in Spain, ...

Today, the Sahara is a 3.6-million-square-mile expanse of blistering sand, sweeping dunes, and barren rock. It defines the very concept of an inhospitable wasteland. Yet, hidden deep within the arid ...

Discover the untold stories of Earth's mass extinctions through NBC's new series Surviving Earth, premiering June 4. Get a ...

A single vertebra unearthed near Tainan is rewriting what scientists know about prehistoric Taiwan.

Hunted by Neanderthals, giant elephants travelled hundreds of miles across Europe - Human ancestors hunted large prey in organised way using their knowledge of landscape ...

Evolution usually helps a species survive. But sometimes, a trait that once made perfect sense ends up causing real trouble.

Using cutting-edge ancient DNA analysis, scientists have found evidence of trees like oak, elm, and hazel growing on this now-submerged landscape over 16,000 years ago, thousands of years earlier than ...