Millions of years ago, the planet was home to terrifying predators that make many of today's dangerous animals look harmless.

A massive prehistoric snake discovered in India may have rivaled the largest snake ever known. Called Vasuki indicus, the ...

The ancient oceans produced giants across nearly every major group of marine animals. From enormous prehistoric whales to ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of prehistoric animal that swam in lakes and rivers around 165 million years ago.

Rhinos that flourished across much of North America 12 million years ago gathered in huge herds, according to a new study by the University of Cincinnati. Researchers studied the isotopes of rhino ...

Brandon Ballengée’s ‘Frameworks of Absence’ (2006–ongoing) in the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts booth at the 2015 Armory Show (photo by Jillian Steinhauer/Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) The animals have ...

When and how prehistoric humans came to the Americas has been the subject of some heated debate. For the latter half of the 20th century, it was thought that the Clovis people arrived first around ...

There’s a word for the final remaining member of a species: endling, which was suggested in a letter written to Nature in 1996. “An orphan is someone, usually a child, with no living parents. A ...

Koalas with the bodies of lions. Elephants the size of your dog. Gigantic, 8-foot-tall sloths. These aren’t creatures found in science fiction: They walked our planet a million years ago, during the ...