Fossils uncovered in Japan nearly two decades ago have revealed a giant salamander believed to have inhabited the region's ...

Long before cities and roads transformed its landscape, Europe supported animals comparable with Africa’s ...

Researchers say the giant predator lived about 415 million years ago, when life on land was still in its early stages A giant scorpion longer than a yardstick once roamed Earth — and scientists say ...

Wild sightings of California giant salamanders are increasingly uncommon. So when a park ranger spotted one while monitoring streams in a remote forest in September 2025, the discovery thrilled ...

Discover a unique fossil find from the Australian Outback detailing how a large ichthyosaur preyed on a pterosaur before it ...

Approximately 160 million years ago, during the Age of Dinosaurs, giant marine reptiles ruled the seas. One such creature, an ichthyosaur, swam in a sea near present-day Peterborough, England. This ...

Eight complete skeletons of prehistoric marsupial lions are among an astonishing menagerie of megafauna fossils discovered in a hidden cave in Australia’s outback desert. Only partial skeletons have ...

Roughly 50,000 years ago, a kangaroo unlike any alive today lived in the mountain rainforests of New Guinea. First discovered by Western science in 1983, Protemnodon tumbuna was roughly the size of a ...

A kraken-like octopus the size of a lorry prowled Earth's oceans back when dinosaurs ruled the land, new fossil discoveries have suggested. Scientists have believed that sharks and giant marine ...

The first primates quickly evolved a remarkable diversity in the aftermath of the impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. New fossil finds from Montana, US, reveal a species so different from others that ...

A giant scorpion longer than a yardstick once roamed Earth — and scientists say they have finally confirmed its identity. According to research highlighted by London's Natural History Museum and ...