Mammoths were not the only enormous beasts ancient humans hunted. Elephant ancestors were also on the menu. While analyzing ...

Before humans arrived, North America was home to towering mammals and apex predators—creatures that pushed the limits of life on land. Their extinction still raises questions ...

Largely outshone by fossils of horses, the earliest camels are getting another look from scientists determined to sort out ...

Armed with nothing but a net, the mission is to find fish that look straight out of the dinosaur age. Each pull from the water reveals scales, armor, and features that haven’t changed in millions of ...

Smithsonian's Sea Monsters Unearthed traveling exhibition begins national tour, sharing a missing chapter in Earth's history.

A major dinosaur trackway, 166 million years old, has been discovered in Oxfordshire. This find reveals hundreds of ...

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Fossils found in a riverbed in Japan were revealed as a large, ancient ancestor of right whales. Tanaka, et al (2025) Palaeontologia Electronica The largest animal thought to ever live is swimming ...

During a remarkably warm period 400,000 years ago, early humans living near what is now Rome regularly butchered massive straight-tusked elephants, using both their meat and bones as vital resources ...

Understanding how species survive environmental upheavals is central to evolutionary and conservation science. Southeast Asia ...