Some fossils preserve far more than bones, capturing the exact moments prehistoric animals suffered catastrophic and often horrifying deaths millions of years ago. Giant sauropod footprints became ...

Tracks left by some of the earliest complex animals are giving new insights into how they experienced the world. New research ...

Latimeria or Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae Smith), A living fossil, the oldest known living lineage of Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish and tetrapods).© Openfinal/Shutterstock.com Nature craves ...

Ancient animal history is extremely difficult to reconstruct, for a number of reasons. Some of the earliest creatures in existence were soft-bodied and microscopic, leaving behind very little evidence ...

In a dry riverbed in Brazil, in a dense forest near the Amazon, a team of paleontologists found a fossilized jawbone from an ancient animal. Over the course of their fieldwork, they found eight ...

The music produced for Apple TV's "Prehistoric Planet" was created in part with custom instruments made from actual fossils ...

Why do some ancient animals become fossils while others disappear without a trace? A new study from the University of Lausanne, published in Nature Communications, reveals that part of the answer lies ...

Scientists have peered inside the skull of a 380-million-year-old Antarctic fish that was closely related to the first animals to walk on land, revealing surprising clues about how life began its move ...

The curious minds at What If explore ancient animals that were even scarier than dinosaurs.

Prehistoric rock art site in northeast Zimbabwe showing a variety of large animals including elephant and rhino. Image ...