We might fancy ourselves the smartest apes to ever live, but we are certainly not the largest. That honorific goes to the Gigantopithecus blacki, a creature that likely stood nearly 10-feet-tall and ...

The bones he encountered belonged to a newly named species, Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, which is part of the hyaenodonts’ family ...

Footprints Reveal Prehistoric Scottish Lagoons Were Stomping Grounds for Giant Jurassic Dinosaurs Apr ... may have evolved before humans and apes diverged millions of years ...

First Ancient Genomes from the Green Sahara Deciphered Apr. 2, 2025 — An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest ...

Australia’s giant Protemnodon kangaroos didn’t die out everywhere at the same time. Instead, extinction proceeded one habitat ...

Scientists used fossil data to predict the home range of the prehistoric Protemnodon and its implications for the species’ ...

It’s wonderful to imagine kangaroos almost four times the size of big reds hopping around ancient Australia, but this lot ...

For over fifty years, a prehistoric rhinoceros mass grave has baffled paleontologists. Over one hundred rhino skeletons were found in the same spot, having all died together 12 million years ago.

The dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus) was a previously-extinct canine that roamed North ... Similar in size to today’s largest gray wolves, it had bigger teeth and a stronger bite—perfectly adapted ...

The giant sauropod was the largest known land-dwelling animal on the continent. While Alamosaurus remains have been found at Big Bend NP before, most have been "fragmentary and poorly preserved ...

Pupy (pronounced POOH’-pee in Spanish) did not require sedation during the five-day journey to Elephant Sanctuary Brazil, the ...

Ruby Reynolds and her father were on the beach when they discovered Ichthyotitan severnensis - the largest-ever marine ...