A Florida boat captain has found a huge tooth that belonged to a prehistoric Megalodon shark. Megalodons, meaning ‘big tooth’, are a now-extinct shark species that graced the Earth's waters…
A new study has found that an elephant-sized sloth that roamed South America 1.8 million years ago was not a vegetarian like its tree-dwelling descendants. The American Museum of Natural…
This 99-million-year-old spider mum frozen in time by solidified amber is the oldest piece of evidence showing that ancient spiders kept a close eye on their hatchlings. Four separate chunks…
A team of US and German scientists have revealed that a prehistoric crocodile did not have scaled armour but instead soft skin similar to today's dolphins. The research was carried…
A prehistoric shark with wing-like fins for whizzing through the oceans has been discovered by a team of European and Mexican palaeontologists. The 93-million-year-old eagle shark from the Cretaceous period…
A farmer digging a hole in order to build a greenhouse has found an almost complete skeleton of a prehistoric Indricotherium, the ancestor of the rhino that was bigger than…
Russian scientists plan to revive ancient viruses found in millennia-old fossils to better understand their evolution. Experts at the NEFU Mammoth Museum will be studied for traces of prehistoric viruses…
The scientist who reported the strong possibility that prehistoric Megalodon shark babies were cannibals that would eat their siblings in the womb to make sure they were bigger and stronger…
A group of researchers have revealed that cave bears were actually cannibals that had the unsociable tendency of eating their 'cavemates' and their young. The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) bones,…
A metal monolith identical to the one recently discovered in a Utah desert has appeared on a Romanian hillside. The monolith was spotted on Batca Doamnei Hill in the city…