Triops are so old that they are considered living fossils and will eat anything possible, including earthworms.

Come along on a guided tour of the strangest animals in Cincinnati's strangest neighborhood, from fungus-eating ants to a ...

Australian scientist Yi-Kai Tea is investigating one of the weirdest realms of the ocean – and it’s right on Australia’s ...

It's Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on ...

Did you know there were prehistoric crocodiles? Did you know they were really weird looking? Over the years, scientists have found evidence for a lot of strange prehistoric animals, but some of these ...

Kay Lawrence (Julie Adams) goes for a refreshing swim in the lagoon, completely unaware of what lurks beneath. Get your ...

The origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere unexpected: southern Brazil.

Pileated woodpeckers can grow up to 17 inches long, thriving in large and decaying trees in old-growth forests across North ...

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

A faded outline of a human hand on a cave wall in Indonesia could now be the world’s oldest known rock art, according to ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, ...

Starting January 31, the Museum of Idaho invites visitors to step far deeper into prehistory with the opening of Life Before Dinosaurs: Meet the Permian Monsters, a fascinating traveling exhibition ...