Prehistoric parenting goes back even further than we thought Fossils found in Nova Scotia belong to mammal ancestors that died 309 million years ago with the adult protectively cradling a juvenile ...

When the asteroid slammed into prehistoric Mexico and drew the curtain on the Cretaceous, dinosaurs did not fare very well. All but the toothless birds soon died. The aftermath of the impact wasn ...

Thunder beasts were among the first mammals to truly live large. The biggest of these rhino-like creatures, called brontotheres by experts, stood taller than eight feet at the shoulder and weighed ...

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Dinosaurs are great. Don’t get me wrong. But just as their bulk literally cast shade on many of their prehistoric neighbors, they continue to overshadow their Mesozoic contemporaries in our ...

Paleoartist and Wildlife Painter, the title page painting might seem somewhat strange. Gathered around the edge of a lake are ...

More than 90 percent of species that have lived over the course of Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history are extinct. Our planet has preserved evidence of this incredibly diversity of prehistoric ...

(See pictures of the prehistoric "cat crocodile.") According to the study, the cat-size Pakasuchus kapilimai had relatively long legs and a nose similar to a dog 's.

Starting with weird “fishapods” and other early oddities, the book leads readers through prehistoric time all the way up through the “Age of Mammals.” Every image has a unique feel.

The remains of small mammals are often rare at Cretaceous microsites, but, at the site that yielded Dryadissector, mammal teeth outnumber all reptile fossils nearly three to one.

Apples, grapes, figs, plums, and pears have been tempting mammals for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years. But Paleolithic vegetables are another story.

So it seemed only natural that the monstrous bird would have preyed on the scurrying mammals, pouncing on “dawn horses” and cleaving lemur-like primates in two with it’s powerful beak.