Largely outshone by fossils of horses, the earliest camels are getting another look from scientists determined to sort out ...

As well as having long-lasting consequences for Native Americans to this day, the bison population of North America was ...

The Cairo Fossil Forest is the second oldest in the world. These forests mark a turning point in Earth's history because they ...

Across its time harbouring life on Earth, North America has seen some of the most dangerous animals known to the fossil record. The continent has seen everything, from giant dinosaurs, to monstrous, ...

In a Russia rock formation once used as a quarry, an ancient gigantic bear jawbone was discovered. Elizabeth George via Unsplash Prehistoric creatures came in all shapes and sizes, from the towering ...

The discovery in Ecuador of multiple pieces of insect-bearing amber —112 millions of years old—has opened a window to the secrets of a prehistoric forest. At this time, during the Cretaceous era, ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

This pair of duck hunters were down in Leesburg, Florida, and found themselves sharing their ducks with a monstrous gator. At about 13 feet long, this prehistoric behemoth was snagging their downed ...

The Cairo Fossil Forest is a unique collection of 385 million-year-old trees preserved in an abandoned quarry in upstate New York. The forest holds some of the oldest trees in the world, as well as ...

We’re here to ponder what we call the Mima mounds. Explorers, traders and settlers moving into the area noted these odd ...

Perhaps the evidence has been hidden in plain sight, our own bias preventing our eyes from seeing what stands before them. An investigation into the artifacts of the Bismarck heritage reveals many ...