The book also introduces readers to prehistoric mustelids, a family of carnivores that includes weasels, badgers and wolverines. These ancient mammals were far larger than their modern relatives.

Thunder beasts were among the first mammals to truly live large. The biggest of these rhino-like creatures, called brontotheres by experts, stood taller than eight feet at the shoulder and weighed ...

Prehistoric fossils dating back to the Ice Age discovered in South Louisiana. What prehistoric animals used to roam Louisiana ...

Fossils from La Brea Tar Pits in Southern California suggest that sabertooth cats and other large North American mammals disappeared as a result of wildfires spurred by human activity.

Paleontologists have uncovered a previously unknown prehistoric mammal species that was among the largest of its time. The partial remains of the newly identified species were originally collected ...

The discovery of a prehistoric tail-shedding reptile reveals more about large lizard life and lineage during the Late ...

The earliest known mammals first appeared about 225 to 200 million years ago during the late Triassic period. This was about the same time that the earliest dinosaurs first showed up.

Both sites are dated to approximately 1.4 million years and preserve significant numbers of stone tools, as well as cut and percussion marks made with these tools on the bones of large mammals ...

Fragment of projectile point from the cave site of Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France), made of bone from right whale or bowhead whale, dated to 17,300-16,700 years before present, curated at the ...

Item 1 of 2 A large projectile point made of gray whale bone from the Duruthy rockshelter, dated between 18,000 and 17,500 years ago, is pictured in Landes, France, March 30, 2021.

In “Prehistoric World: Over 1,200 Incredible Mammals and Discoveries from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic,” readers will learn about the warm-blooded animals that rose to prominence after the ...