Ever wonder how saber-toothed cats and other extinct creatures behaved? Well, a team of scientists unearthed ancient footprints that offer insight into how various prehistoric animals lived as far ...

Roman Uchytel is a Ukrainian paleontologist and graphic designer who recreates prehistoric fauna, providing an interesting scale comparison of our ancestors' features. He contrasts the sizes of ...

In the world of biology, being declared extinct is usually a permanent sentence, but nature occasionally loves to prove us wrong. These incredible animals, often referred to as “Lazarus species,” ...

Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...

About 95 million years ago, a juvenile crocodyliform nicknamed Elton lived in what is now southwest Montana at the edge of the Western Interior Seaway. Measuring no more than 2 feet long from nose to ...

The koalas clambering around eucalyptus canopies may be cuddly herbivores, but their extinct relatives were horrifying predators. The charismatic marsupials are the closest living relatives of ...

True extinction is final, a point of no return where a species disappears forever. And sadly, species go extinct all the time. But in some rare cases, animals believed to be lost for good have ...

Hidden deep within the sandstone plateaus of Tassili n'Ajjer, the central Sahara Desert holds one of humanity’s oldest surviving art galleries. Across cliffs, caves, and rock shelters, prehistoric ...

Dinosaurs have always been around in the human imagination. Whether it is through blockbusters like Jurassic Park or contemporary attempts at de-extincting animals like Woolly Mammoths, Dodos, and ...