A new analysis of this 400,000-year-old skull fills in missing branches on the elephant evolutionary tree.

here are the animals that get my vote for “most prehistoric-looking.” They may not be the oldest animals on Earth, but they aren’t recent creations either. Most of all, when you look at them ...

In "Prehistoric World: Over 1,200 Incredible Mammals and Discoveries from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic," readers will learn ...

In western Madagascar, prehistoric rock art drawings ... They depict images of nature with figures that represent various ...

Amber was a symbol of luxury, even in prehistoric times. In places where natural amber was scarce, recipes for faux-amber ...

Mammals are among the most adaptable animals on the planet ... The ear bones of mammals were once the jaws of prehistoric reptiles. And so on. Despite these differences, all mammals share four ...

A high-tech company is confident that several long-gone beasts can be resurrected by 2028, all thanks to a bankroll by ...

A giant fossil skull of an extinct elephant, discovered in the Kashmir Valley of northern India, is helping scientists ...

A new paper argues that we should consider these images a form of Indigenous paleontology ... the theory that they were well aware of prehistoric animals. San indigenous tales tell of creatures ...

“The Galapagos was incredible,” he says, “like a walk in a prehistoric time. There were so many sharks in very dark water, ...

More than 6,500 volunteers have supported the accurate identification of approximately 1,000 prehistoric burial mounds in the ...