"It's a wonderfully weird beast," added study co-author Ben Otoo, a doctoral student in paleontology at the University of Chicago's Committee on Evolutionary Biology and the Field Museum ...

tall and 16 feet (4.9 meters) long, with giant Y-shaped horns on their noses, according to the National Park Service. The name Brontotherium — “thunder beast,” coined in the 19th century by ...

A group of Canadian fossils is identified as a new genus of the elasmosaurus "sea monster" that existed tens of millions of ...

when they discovered a fragment of a titanic sea beast. As Justin studied the 4-inch-long, oval-shaped fossil, Ruby started to scout the slope above them. She found a second piece of fossilized ...

The secret to their impressive size, scientists have found, partly stems from competition at the prehistoric salad bar. Mammals began to grow big only after the age of dinosaurs came to an end 66 ...

It looked like a strange prehistoric animal walking down an ice covered hillside with an iceberg in the distance. In reality this is a tiny insect that I believe is a kind of weevil.

A stock image shows an angry cat hissing. A house cat was caught on camera getting ready to fight a prehistoric beast on TV. A stock image shows an angry cat hissing. A house cat was caught on ...

If you spot a prehistoric beast at the Phoenix Zoo this summer, do not be alarmed. It just means that the popular “Dinosaurs in the Desert” exhibit is making its way back after five years.

What do we know about these prehistoric wolves? Dire wolves went extinct roughly 13,000 years ago. Their skeletal remains have been found in North and South America, according to the National Park ...