Prehistoric times had no shortage of pretty scary creatures, but you need to look no further than this huge arthopod to find ...

When a giant fossilized claw was discovered in West Virginia in the late 1700s, there was great excitement over what extinct animal it could have belonged to. Before becoming president ...

While many of Earth’s earliest life forms have long since gone extinct, some animals have stood the test ... The Andrias salamanders, commonly known as giant salamanders, are part of a lineage ...

A forgotten fossil in a German museum turned out to be a rare Diatryma skull. Scientists corrected a decades-old ...

South American megafauna, from giant sloths to camel-like creatures, survived thousands of years longer than we thought, ...

These giant, elephant-like creatures roamed the Earth from about 300,000 years ago until roughly 10,000 years ago. Woolly mammoths are some of the best-known prehistoric animals, partly because ...

The 205 million-year-old jaw bone of a prehistoric reptile belongs to ‘one of the largest animals ever’ say a group of international palaeontologists. The new discovery has also solved a 150 year old ...