Recent studies confirm Vasuki Indicus, a 47-million-year-old snake discovered in India, rivaled Titanoboa in size. Both ...

Fossil remains unearthed in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine reveal Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the largest snake ever discovered, ...

The large, extinct creatures roamed the Twin Cities area more than 10,000 years ago and could grow to more than 200 pounds ...

Discover how ancient humans scaled up their food production to survive in harsh environments.

A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America's oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

Excavations at the site. Credit: Wil Roebroeks / Leiden University The remains analyzed include more than 172 large mammals —deer, horses, and aurochs, among others—whose bones were systematically ...

This practice has been documented as far back as 28,000 years ago, but has not been confirmed at older sites, making ...

According to the authors, the huge cache of bones may have been collected over a period of time before being imported to ...

June 9, 2025 — For millions of years, large herbivores like mastodons and giant deer shaped the Earth's ecosystems, which astonishingly stayed stable despite extinctions and upheavals.

Scientists found clues in old boxes of bones that may explain why most large mammals vanished in the last 60,000 years.