Tens of thousands of years ago the world was covered by giant animals known as megafauna, many of which are now extinct. These animals that used to be way bigger include mammoths, a giant ...

A scientist studying fossilized vomit from beneath the seabed says the chunks are the indigestible remains of dinners eaten by massive marine reptiles that lived millions of years ago. The ...

Australia’s First Peoples were more early paleontologists than extinction-driving butchers, a group of scientists argue. For decades, the debate over whether the first humans to inhabit present-day ...

In the late 1990s in the Ajimu region of Japan's Oita Prefecture, researchers discovered three fossilized vertebrae belonging to the Cryptobranchidae family of giant salamanders. These were embedded ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. We’re losing species at an alarming rate. Could freezing the genetic material of the world’s most endangered animals help save them? Biotech ...

If there are two things you picture when you hear the word “kangaroo,” chances are it’s either a mama with a joey in her pouch or their propensity to hop across the Outback. It’s daunting enough that ...