Twelve non-dinosaur rulers show Earth’s old power: armored fish, giant insects, sky titans, sea kings, and saber teeth across ...

Millions of years ago, a predator like spinosaurus (shown in the background of this artist's illustration) ate the filter-feeding pterosaur Barikibu waridza, and then puked up its meal, which later ...

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 ...

Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

Paleontologists spent decades trying to explain "Devil's corkscrews," the bizarre spiral-shaped fossils found in Wyoming and ...

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 ...

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

More than 66 million years ago, Mexico was home to numerous species of dinosaurs, some of them as terrifying as T. rex.

Long ago, approximately 2.6 million years ago during the Ice Age, prehistoric animals roamed throughout the U.S., including Louisiana. Prehistoric megafauna like the mastodon, which were large, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Bradley covers the intersection of tech and entertainment. The Ice Age tends to get flattened into a postcard: endless white, ...