From horseshoe crabs to crocodiles, some of these creatures have looked about the same for hundreds of millions of years.

Prehistoric animals are often pictured as distant fossils, yet a surprising number of species still walk, swim, and crawl across Earth with body plans that echo deep time. Strictly speaking, ...

Roughly 234 million years ago, Earth’s continents were fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it was on the ...

Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants were just beginning ...

To sort the earliest branches of the dinosaur family tree, paleontologists compare skeletons piece by piece. They build ...

A group of 6,000-year-old seashells has emerged as the loudest playable sound-producing instruments yet confirmed from prehistoric Europe. Their continued ability to project sound forces a ...

The Jurassic Period lasted from about 201.3 to 145 million years ago. Evolution moved incredibly fast then, as did the creatures it created. In popular culture, we tend to think of dinosaurs as slow, ...

The impact dinosaurs had on Earth was so big that their extinction seems to have caused dramatic and wide-ranging changes to the planet’s landscapes, such as shifting rivers. There is a marked ...

Scientists have discovered a rare 68-million-year-old dinosaur egg containing another egg inside it in Madhya Pradesh, India. The extraordinary fossil of Titanosaur reveals new clues about dinosaur ...

Scientists have unearthed prehistoric insects preserved in amber in South America for the first time, offering an unprecedented glimpse into a pivotal era when flowering plants began to flourish ...