Recently, research further concluded that Neandertals were carnivores based on results from zinc isotope analysis. We know they likely ate meat, but questions remained regarding what type of meat they ...

More than a million years ago, a prehistoric “quicksand trap” caused numerous elephants to perish. A team of researchers from institutions in Spain was studying an archaeological site called ...

Evidence from the site suggests hyenas and prehistoric humans may have scavenged on the half-sunken carcasses of the stricken elephants.

More than 90 percent of species that have lived over the course of Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history are extinct. Our planet has preserved evidence of this incredibly diversity of prehistoric ...

Over two decades ago, a team from the University of Jammu uncovered the giant fossilized skull of an extinct elephant species in India’s Kashmir Valley. The remains were uncovered along with 87 ...

Last fortnight there were in captivity just two sea elephants, both in Germany. One day in the Hanover Zoo, four-ton Goliath III sighed through his dewlap snout and died. Forty-eight hours later ...

Neanderthals Hunted Down Massive Prehistoric Beasts. The straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) roamed Europe and western Asia during the Pleistocene era, approximately 800,000 to ...

The prehistoric beasts that roamed ancient Britain – including giant ‘Irish Elk’ with 12ft antlers and 13-ton elephants Some of these creatures would have lived alongside early humans ...

However, there were also other incredible prehistoric animals. After the extinction of the dinosaurs during the Cretaceous mass extinction (the fifth mass extinction) about 66 million years ago, a ...

Animals at Houston Zoo were treated to a rare frosty treat last week when a snowstorm swept through Texas. In adorable video footage, an Asian elephant was seen trotting through the snow, while a ...