From horseshoe crabs to crocodiles, some of these creatures have looked about the same for hundreds of millions of years.

Prehistoric animals are often pictured as distant fossils, yet a surprising number of species still walk, swim, and crawl across Earth with body plans that echo deep time. Strictly speaking, ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, the skies of South America were ruled by a colossal bird. Argentavis magnificens, one of ...

David Burnham presents a row of T. rex teeth on April 18, 2025, at the Paleontology Lab at Dyche Hall, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd. For David Burnham, paleontology isn’t just a science — it’s storytelling, and ...

The six-part series “Walking with Dinosaurs” premieres with two episodes on Monday, June 16, on New Mexico PBS, channel 5.1. The first episode, “The Orphan,” begins at 7 p.m. and the second episode, ...

Ever wonder how saber-toothed cats and other extinct creatures behaved? Well, a team of scientists unearthed ancient footprints that offer insight into how various prehistoric animals lived as far ...

A traveling dinosaur museum brought prehistoric creatures to life for students in the small town of San Diego, giving children a rare opportunity to experience fossils and dinosaur exhibits up close. ...

Some of the wildest legends may actually be rooted in reality. Ancient people didn’t have science textbooks, just bones in the dirt and stories passed around the fire, and sometimes, those stories ...

The “mighty” new prehistoric whale species was about 40 feet long based on the fossilized bones. Tanaka, et al (2025) Palaeontologia Electronica The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI ...

The incredible success of Jurassic Parkintroduced a generation of filmgoers to dinosaurs on the big screen, but the first depictions of these prehistoric creatures go back more than 100 years. That’s ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X NEW YORK — If you’ve seen any of the “Ice Age” animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You ...

NEW YORK – If you’ve seen any of the “Ice Age” animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don’t know the real ice age. It was an incredible time when the Earth was going through immense ...