Archaeologists have found a prehistoric human skeleton deep inside a flooded cave system on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.

Baby dinosaurs weren’t coddled like lion cubs or elephant calves—they were more like prehistoric latchkey kids. New research ...

Amateur paleontologist Jason Howery discovered the 92-pound femur of an Ice Age mammoth in a lake in Nodaway County, Missouri ...

Prehistoric animals are often pictured as distant fossils, yet a surprising number of species still walk, swim, and crawl ...

From horseshoe crabs to crocodiles, some of these creatures have looked about the same for hundreds of millions of years.

Artifacts from a cave in the US may rewrite the history of the continent, showing ancient humans had surprising skills ...

Artist’s recreation of Epiatheracerium itjilik in its forested lake habitat, Devon Island, Early Miocene, 23 million years ago. The plants and animals shown, including a rodent, rabbit, and the ...

The stomach of an Ice Age puppy is shedding new light onto the woolly rhinoceros and what—or what didn't—cause these horned giants to die out. Reading time 3 minutes Yesterday’s lunch can sometimes be ...

Walk into any natural history museum and you’ll find towering dinosaur skeletons that capture our imagination with their prehistoric majesty. Yet what many visitors don’t realize is that while they’re ...

A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from prehistoric excretions. Millions of years ago, a predator like spinosaurus (shown ...

From sloths that towered over people like living bulldozers and penguins heavier than an ostrich, to snakes longer than a bus, prehistoric landscapes were shaped by creatures so massive they almost ...

CU Boulder alumni Judy and Rod McKeever donate a tree once considered extinct to the EBIO greenhouse, giving students a living example of modern conservation Wally probably doesn’t know he’s a ...