It was capable of growing beyond 30 feet in length and weighed around 10 tons—a mature elephant plus a sedan car.

Various video games feature extinct animals, predominantly dinosaurs, with creative interpretations mixing fact and fiction.

Bears one of the largest land predators alive right now, but today's bears are tiny compared to a massive prehistoric bear ...

Evidence of this explosion is present throughout the Burgess Shale, leading to its establishment as a world heritage site by ...

The remains of an Ice Age era animal have been unearthed in Lubbock during a road construction project. Here's what it was and what will happen next.

Exploring this never-before-seen part of the planet revealed large corals, sponges, octopuses, giant sea spiders ... Based on the size of the animals, the communities we observed have been ...

Crews uncover Ice Age megafauna fossils during a Texas Loop 88 highway project, offering a rare glimpse into the state’s ...

This was a predatory species, researchers said, related to Anomalocaris canadensis, the largest animal known from the Burgess Shale and an apex predator. Though only the size of a finger ...

Yoho National Park in the Canadian Rockies holds evidence of prehistoric ocean life ... related to Anomalocaris canadensis, the largest animal known from the Burgess Shale and an apex predator.

Algeria, Africa’s largest country, is throwing its doors open to record numbers of visitors. Roman ruins and trekking through ...

Tegus, once thought to be newcomers, actually roamed ancient Georgia during a global warm spell millions of years ago — a ...

As the debris pile grew over millennia, some animals that fell rolled or bounced, creating the broad field of bones that fills the chamber today. The bones of at least one Miracinonyx, an extinct ...