When some of the more entrepreneurial lifeforms started moving from water to land some 390 million years ago, things soon got ...

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 ...

The blue whale is the largest animal known to have ever lived, reaching lengths of nearly 100 feet and weighing more than 300 ...

David Burnham presents a row of T. rex teeth on April 18, 2025, at the Paleontology Lab at Dyche Hall, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd. For David Burnham, paleontology isn’t just a science — it’s storytelling, and ...

Some of the wildest legends may actually be rooted in reality. Ancient people didn’t have science textbooks, just bones in the dirt and stories passed around the fire, and sometimes, those stories ...

The six-part series “Walking with Dinosaurs” premieres with two episodes on Monday, June 16, on New Mexico PBS, channel 5.1. The first episode, “The Orphan,” begins at 7 p.m. and the second episode, ...

A recent video shows a massive bluntnose sixgill shark emerging from the deep sea. This ancient species, predating dinosaurs, ...

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The “mighty” new prehistoric whale species was about 40 feet long based on the fossilized bones. Tanaka, et al (2025) Palaeontologia Electronica The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI ...

After the success of its first two seasons, Apple TV's "Prehistoric Planet" is back with a third instalment, this time focusing on the last ice age. Whereas the first two seasons transported viewers ...