A remarkable collection of fossils has been unearthed in Florida after a sinkhole swallowed a group of animals. 500,000 years ...

Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...

For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

The fossil discovered at Sea-Tac Airport is at the Burke Museum, and named for the man who first came across it. Nearly 60% ...

have discovered 40 prehistoric sites, uncovering rock paintings from the Neolithic period, around 10,000 years old. These significant findings include depictions of animals and humans on granite ...

The tarsier’s huge, round eyes are almost as big as its brain. These eyes help them spot prey in the darkest of jungles. Persian cats have large, expressive eyes in shades of gold, green ...

Rhinos and rhino iguanas live on different continents, which regrettably means that we’ll never witness a crash of rhinos resulting in a mess of iguanas – two of the funniest collective names for a ...

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Several people guessed it was a vertebrae, with one wondering whether it could be from “a wolf or medium sized animal.” Several others guessed it came from some kind of prehistoric reptile ...

“If you have a big lake or pond habitat, then lots of ducks and geese want to come in. We might change up how we feed [the animals] so that we’re not leaving food pans out to attract wild birds.

is considered very important when reconstructing past ecosystems because it provides important information about which animals were ... the relationships in the prehistoric food chain.