New research has confirmed that moa, New Zealand’s giant, flightless birds, went extinct within just 300 years of human arrival. A study published in Science of the Total Environment reveals that ...

The giant beaver skull is several times larger than the beavers that roam Minnesota today. Hastings told the curious onlookers that the prehistoric ... ranging from a bird to a flag to a muffin ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands ... extinction because they could burrow and eat a wide ...

While one is an extinct prehistoric giant and the other still roams the ... It eats many kinds of animals, ranging from fish, turtles, and birds to even larger creatures like tapirs.

A prehistoric feathered throwback that stands five feet tall, this apex predator easily swallows its younger siblings, and ...

The blue-headed quail dove is a uniquely ancient species with no close relatives and is now on the brink of extinction. At ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

Scientists have discovered a rare fossil of a giant, venomous scorpion that lived ... making it a significant predator. This prehistoric scorpion likely hunted insects, small reptiles, and even ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed ... mass extinction event 66 million years ago. Unlike giant dinosaurs, most early birds were small, which meant they required less food ...

They show the gritty side of dinosaur life,” Lacovara said. “Dinosaurs were authentic beings that lived under their own ...

These flightless birds, related to modern-day kiwis ... weapons to rip open the bellies and necks of its prey before moving in to feast. This giant prehistoric crocodilian was the king of the rivers ...