With a beak full of ultra-strong teeth, this weird prehistoric bird may seem like a fearsome predator. However, a new study has found that the Longipteryx chaoyangensis actually feasted on fruit ...

A prehistoric predator changed its diet and body size during a major warming event 56 million years ago, revealing how ...

For paleontologists who study animals that lived long ago, fossilized remains tell only part of the story of an animal's life. While a well-preserved skeleton can provide hints at what an ancient ...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have unearthed thousands of microscopic fossils from the iconic Canyon, ...

Prehistoric deer grew to some enormous sizes and had some incredible antlers. Here are some more of these giant and weird prehistoric animals! Thank you to Emilia and Quinn for writing this episode!

Hallucigenia was a prehistoric worm-like sea creature that lived 500 million years ago. (Illustration by Danielle Dufault, photo by Jean-Bernard Caron, Royal Ontario Museum) ...

Preserved in tan stone, the fossil of Mirasaura included much of the ancient reptile’s skeleton and a feather-like fan that ...

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Whatcheeria was an early tetrapod, as the first land vertebrates – animals with backbones – were known. These were the predecessors to today’s land vertebrates – amphibians, reptiles ...

What does a strange giraffe-like animal with three horns atop its head and a set of fangs that roamed Europe about 15 million years ago have in common with a pretty young queen from the "Star Wars ...