A tragic accident that befell ancient rhinos in the mid-Miocene era has allowed scientists to determine that these massive mammals, which once thrived across North America, used to gather in huge ...

Hidden beneath concrete at San Pedro High School, construction workers found a buried secret — thousands of marine fossils echoing Palos Verdes Peninsula's ancient geological past. Researchers ...

NEW YORK - There could be a new contender for heaviest animal to ever live. While today's blue whale has long held the title, scientists have dug up fossils from an ancient giant that could tip the ...

Shark ancestors have been found to have preferred to feed on the noses of ancient sperm whales thanks to their large fat content, according to research published in the journal Proceedings of the ...

Millions of years ago, long-legged, big-beaked, meat-eating “terror birds” stalked the Americas. The imposing creatures ruled the roost as top predators of their ...

Background Kitum Cave is one of five caves on Mount Elgon, an extinct shield volcano on the border between Kenya and Uganda.

Astonished scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of ant after scanning a 20-million-year-old block of amber. Researchers from Germany, France, and Poland made the remarkable find ...