An international research team has published a new study on one of the oldest known sites for the processing of animal meat ...

A shocking prehistoric discovery has emerged from the American wilderness: massive fossilized footprints that could rewrite ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

Our species arose in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago and later trekked worldwide, eventually reaching some of Earth's most ...

Isolation allows creatures to thrive as their relatives perish due to the threats present on much larger landmasses ...

Several sites along the Natchitoches Trace have been labeled as a persistent place, which is to say a place that has been ...

Paleontologists at the University of Kansas have identified a new species of ancient mammal that lived about 60 million years ...

The animals that plummeted 85 feet into Wyoming’s Natural Trap Cave provide a layered history of life dating back to the ...

A prehistoric sea monster never-before-known to man was hunting prey in North America 85 million years ago, fossils found decades ago in Canada reveal. The first set of fossils, found in 1988 ...

Evidently, so too did the sebecid — a tall crocodile-like species that replaced the dinosaur as an apex predator. Paleontologists have thought the species went extinct about 11 million years ago.

Researchers created 3D models of ancient tracks in Oregon’s John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. The study revealed a glimpse of animal life 50 million years ago.

The absence of claw marks suggested that the animal’s claws were retractable, like those of modern cats. And the gait appears similar, too, Martin said.