History is full of terrifying beasts that would make even the most ferocious living predators look like cuddly toys. There's the largest prehistoric arthropod, as well as the the giant eagle that ...

Based on fossil finds, archaeologists are now piecing together how ancient humans thrived in a land dominated by dangerous large animals. A study published in the journal Science Advances has unveiled ...

Very large things often have small beginnings. That certainly was true for brontotheres, the enormous, rhino-like herbivorous mammals that lumbered across North America and Asia during the Eocene ...

Most animal species last a few million years before going extinct but there are always exceptions called living fossils. Some of these animals have been around for hundreds of millions of years! Let’s ...

Like the rest of the West Coast, far Northern California was under water when early dinosaurs roamed North America. That doesn’t mean what would become Shasta County didn’t have its own amazing ...

This thing surprised me when I zoomed in on it with my camera. It looked like a strange prehistoric animal walking down an ice covered hillside with an iceberg in the distance. In reality this is a ...

Newly identified Dinosaur footprints on the Isle of Skye reveal that meat-eating megalosaurs and plant-eating sauropods coexisted around freshwater lagoons 167 million years ago. Analysis of 131 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Life on Earth began over four billion years ago, not long ...

Very large things often have small beginnings. That certainly was true for brontotheres, the enormous, rhino-like herbivorous mammals that lumbered across North America and Asia during the Eocene ...