Thirteen million years ago, a group of medium-sized monkeys known for guarding their territory among the treetops with fearsome "howls" started doing something new. These monkeys, among the oldest ...

For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

An extraordinary rhino fossil found in the Arctic is reshaping everything we know about prehistoric life and evolution.

The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, two marsupials believed to have died out thousands of years ago, are still alive in Papuan Indonesia.

It's been thousands of years since the woolly mammoths that used to roam the Northern Hemisphere went extinct. However, their former habitat is still ...

Where can you find woolly mammoths, dire wolves, saber-toothed tigers, Ironman and Loki? Well, how about the Bruneau Sand Dunes south of Mountain Home? You may have seen it: the BBC natural history ...

Not a theme park. Not a museum. Not even a fenced attraction. Just towering metal creatures standing exactly where the desert allows them. Dinosaurs pause mid-stride, mammoths loom against open sky, ...

In its day, the sloth-like Paramylodon only had to worry about saber-toothed cats and the apex predators of the Pleistocene. But the 7-foot-tall recreation Brian Engh sculpted recently in Camarillo ...

In its day, the sloth-like Paramylodon only had to worry about saber-toothed cats and the apex predators of the Pleistocene. But the 7-foot-tall recreation Brian Engh sculpted recently in Camarillo ...

Twelve non-dinosaur rulers show Earth’s old power: armored fish, giant insects, sky titans, sea kings, and saber teeth across eons.

In 1978, residents in the small community of Winameg in rural northwest Ohio discovered several bones of a mammal dating back to the Ice Age: a mastodon. Bowling Green State University studied the ...