Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...

Scientists studying the fossil remains of giant prehistoric kangaroos have found that even animals weighing more than 200kg may not have been too big to bounce, overturning long-held assumptions about ...

Towards the end of the last ice age, an ancient wolf feasted on a young woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis). When the ...

Ever wonder how saber-toothed cats and other extinct creatures behaved? Well, a team of scientists unearthed ancient footprints that offer insight into how various prehistoric animals lived as far ...

These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...

More than 14,000 years ago, a wolf pup ate a piece of woolly rhino. Scientists have analyzed the rhino's DNA to figure out ...

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

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The once-extinct dire wolf species, popularized in HBO's "Game of Thrones," has been brought back. But were Colossal Biosciences scientists behind the de-extinction so preoccupied with whether or not ...