A long-lost prehistoric bird species makes a triumphant comeback in its native land after being considered extinct.

A newly discovered species of a large, crocodile-relative predator has been described via a remarkably well-preserved fossil ...

Scientists have discovered that the world's oldest armored dinosaur sported the most extreme defensive features ever found in any vertebrate, living or extinct. The 165-million-year-old Spicomellus ...

Earth once hosted more than 10,000 species of these ancient marine predators. Find out how they lived, when they vanished, ...

Before them swam a prehistoric fish that people once believed had vanished 70 million years ago. It was a living relic from ...

It’s essentially a little whale with big eyes and a mouth full of sharp, slicing teeth ... Imagine the shark-like version of ...

Found on the southern coast of Australia, the species could fill gaps in scientists' understanding of baleen whale evolution ...

Lead author Melanie Beasley, an assistant professor of biological anthropology at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, found that a taste for maggots could explain a distinctive chemical ...

"It really does prove that money can grow on trees!” The post Couple’s prehistoric tree produces seeds worth over $6,000 ...

Utah researchers say a prehistoric camel bone found in Uintah County nearly four decades ago is much older than initially ...

A set of carved stone animals - a fox, a vulture and a wild boar - is shedding light on the way prehistoric people told stories after being unearthed by archaeologists in southeastern Turkey.

Long before whales were majestic, gentle giants, some of their prehistoric ancestors were tiny, weird and feral.