A New York couple made an incredible prehistoric find 13,000 years old in their backyard while mowing the lawn: several ...

Gabriel Andriamanjaka holds the radiotracking aerial aloft and marches into a spiky forest thicket. Branches whip around his ...

A rare snail species that had likely become extinct in the wild was recently reintroduced to the Hawaiian landscape.

More archeological excavation is needed to clarify exactly what this pit was used for. “Roman society was full of ...

An extinct carnivorous group known as gorgonopsians, which lived between 270 and 250 million years ago, laid eggs and had ...

Wes Plummer collected shoulders from bison, elk, cattle and many other animals for three years until he had enough to build a ...

As permafrost melts, affected by climate change, more and more parts of prehistoric animals are being discovered.

New research suggests that humans, new to the Americas, lived alongside giant ground sloths and mastodons for millennia.

The findings are unique because the mammoth's head and trunk survived all these years. The trunk typically thaws first and is ...

Fossils show humans coexisted with giant sloths and mastodons for thousands of years. Evidence includes modified sloth bones ...

Yana is estimated to have been only about one year old when she died. She weighs more than 397 pounds and measures about 4 ...

Smithsonian Magazine offers up a few other ancient creatures that could fit the bill, including Nile crocodiles, goannas, and ...