A giant burrowing salamander fossil challenges assumptions about amphibian evolution in prehistoric Appalachia. A giant ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the ...

These bizarrely shaped bivalves resembled giant ice cream cones, sometimes reaching more than ... the bulk of ecosystem services are driven genetically or functionally extinct. The global oceans and ...

Journey Into a Prehistoric Cave That Trapped and Entombed Animals for Millennia The animals that plummeted 85 feet into Wyoming’s Natural Trap Cave provide a layered history of life dating back ...

These also doubled as convenient latrines; in 1936, paleontologists discovered a mound of fossilized sloth poop, bat guano and packrat middens more than 20 feet thick in Rampart Cave, near Lake Mead.

We discovered fossilised teeth of the now extinct giant kangaroo genus Protemnodon at Mount Etna Caves, north of Rockhampton, in central eastern Queensland. Analysing the teeth gave us a glimpse into ...

Fossils accumulated in the caves because they acted like giant pitfall traps and also lairs of predators such as thylacines, Tasmanian devils, marsupial lions, owls, raptors and the now-endangered ...

Our results suggest the giant kangaroos lived around the caves from at least 500,000 years ago to about 280,000 years ago. After this they disappeared from the Mount Etna fossil record.

In prehistoric times, the Earth was crawling with several giant versions of the animals we know today, including sloths the size of elephants, 50-foot-long snakes, and armadillos the size of cars.

Experts believe Camazotz was inspired by the giant vampire bats that used to swarm the skies over Central America. One of these species of bats, Desmodus draculae, is now extinct, but its nearly ...

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