Long before modern civilization, prehistoric America presented an environment that may have been hostile to early human ...

Join the challenge as we dig for giant Megalodon teeth—how many will we find in this thrilling hunt?

Known as "Big Lick," this site featured mineral-rich natural spring water that attracted animals, making it a hunting ground ...

Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went ...

More than 66 million years ago, Mexico was home to numerous species of dinosaurs, some of them as terrifying as T. rex.

‘Remarkable’ prehistoric elephant bone tool is oldest in Europe, archaeologists reveal - Archaeologists said the 500,000-year ...

Beating the previous record for the oldest known cave artwork by at least 15,000 years, a hand stencil in an Indonesian cave ...

Once dismissed as sticks and forgotten in a museum, the 5,000-year-old tools show prehistoric people hunted whales far from ...

The astronomer Edmond Halley, the namesake for Halley’s comet, linked the northern lights to the Earth’s magnetic field, ...

Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...

American chestnut trees, deemed functionally extinct decades ago, may already be mounting a quiet comeback in the northern ...

Horseshoe crabs have been around for 400 million years, but without protection, they could vanish from SC coast, environmental groups say ...