Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from ...

Imagine a world where monstrous beasts, with jaws large enough to crush bones and attitudes as fierce as their appearance, ...

Imagine standing in a place where time folds in on itself—a vast landscape of mountains, valleys, forests, and rivers. Now ...

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and ...

Many mammals began to adapt to terrestrial life millions of years before the asteroid impact that caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, so there may have been a period in history when both ...

Of course, other creatures were roaming this earth besides dinosaurs. Some of them are now extinct. The movie Ice Age features some of these prehistoric animals. Let’s take a look at the 11 ...

With a collection that includes numerous prehistoric mammal remains, this new find provides important context about the species that once lived in the region. Mastodons, which are distant relatives of ...

Prehistoric cats were some of the most formidable predators to ever roam the Earth. Proailurus is regarded as the common ancestor of all modern felines. Their physique was similar to that of a ...

Thousands of years ago, as the Earth’s last ice age began its transition into the Holocene epoch, massive land mammals that once populated the world underwent widespread extinctions, significantly ...

Stretching 39 feet long and standing 13 feet tall at the hip, this prehistoric giant would tower at 20 feet if upright. But don’t wait, your chance to catch this dino-mite display won’t last ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered that mammals began adapting to terrestrial lifestyles millions of years prior to the dinosaur-extinguishing asteroid impact. The study ...

The Siwaliks, part of the outer Himalayas, span Pakistan, India, Nepal, and Bhutan. Fossils found here reveal a rich diversity of mammals that lived between 18 million and 1 million years ago. These ...