Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went ...

Scientists have successfully extracted the DNA of ancient mummified cheetahs discovered in a cave in Saudi Arabia. This is ...

For 75 years, a pair of fossils in the collection of an Alaska museum was believed to have come from a mammoth. Not so, says ...

A uniquely preserved ichthyosaur from the Pliensbachian period helps resolve when a major evolutionary shift occurred among ...

Deep inside a fossil-filled cave in the Dominican Republic, researchers uncovered evidence of an unexpected interaction ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk.

Environmentalists are suing the federal government over what they say is a failure to protect the horseshoe crab, a ...

This documentary uncovers the remarkable dinosaurs unearthed in the Yixian Formation, one of the richest fossil sites on the ...

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Scientists found ancient bone chemistry that reveals animal health, diet, disease, and environments from millions of years ago.

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