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, ...

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

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

Along with 1,200 individual fossils, they recovered a new pterosaur species that lived 209 million years ago. The recently ...

Long ago, approximately 2.6 million years ago during the Ice Age, prehistoric animals roamed throughout the U.S., including Louisiana. Prehistoric megafauna like the mastodon, which were large ...

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 ...

This dinosaur’s skull was light as air but its mouth was packed with power—and a unique ability to quickly grow teeth. Here’s ...

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.

One of the cassowary's most prehistoric-looking features is its feet. Each foot has three toes, with the inner toe bearing a dagger-like claw that can grow up to 5 inches (12 centimeters) long.

The team named the new pterosaur species Eotephradactylus mcintireae. The generic name means ‘ash-winged dawn goddess’ and references the site’s volcanic ash and the animals’ position near the base of ...