Have you ever seen animals today, like certain birds or reptiles, that sort of look... prehistoric? It turns out that once ...

Four million years ago, the landscape of Northern Greece was the territory of a huge snake, a true biological titan.

A palm-sized fragment of elephant bone, shaped and used as a precision tool almost half a million years ago, has been identified as the oldest known elephant-bone implement in Europe. Although the ...

The Pleistocene epoch, which ended roughly 11,700 years ago, hosted a range of outsized Australian animals, from massive ...

Step into Arizona’s ancient past and see the actual footprints left by prehistoric giants in this remote, awe-inspiring ...

Despite their enormous size, giant ancient kangaroos may have been capable of hopping in short, powerful bursts.

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...

Europe might not be the birthplace of human symbolic culture as previously thought. International scientists have discovered a stencil of a hand in Indonesia that dates back nearly 68,000 years, ...

Archaeologists studying a nearly 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer have determined the ancient tool was made by ...

NEW YORK — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago.

In a prominent paper published in 1977,Xia drew on nearly 100 radiocarbon-dated samples to systematically establish absolute ...

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in ...