On the last night of 1853, twenty-one of the foremost paleontologists ate a grand dinner inside a massive model of a dinosaur ...

A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from ...

Animals often swallow stones called gastroliths to help grind food. But none of the thousands of similar fossil birds have ever been found with swallowed stones.

Discover the extraordinary prehistoric giants – from mega-sloths to monster sharks – that once made today’s animals look miniature.

A genome study contradicts long-held conceptions by determining when domestic felines were introduced into Europe from North Africa.

The nature documentary series uses new research and photorealistic CGI to bring the huge, bizarre animals of the Ice Age back ...

Rocky cliffs run into the Adriatic Sea near Ancona, Italy. There, above the pebbly coast in 2019, rock climbers explored ...

A prehistoric bird that lived and died 120 million years ago has presented forensic paleontologists with a baffling medical ...

This documentary explores the rise and disappearance of two extraordinary extinct elephants, Platybelodon and Deinotherium. It examines how each species developed unique tusk structures that shaped ...

If you’ve seen any of the “Ice Age” animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don’t know the real ice age.

Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn't be—and they just might rewrite the history of human migration.

Pterosaurs acquired flight "in a burst at their origin," giving scientists new insights into the biological laws of flight ...