A river that flows in Pennsylvania is one of the oldest around, so it stands to reason that massive prehistoric beasts once ...

European maps from the Middle Ages are full of strange lands, legendary races and fabulous monsters. Only the Church with the help of God was able to provide protection against these horrors. The ...

Megalodon usually gets all the attention when it comes to sea monsters, but ancient oceans were full of predators just as ...

"Co-published by the British Library"--Colophon. Beckwith, J. Bruce. Bibliotheca Beckwithiana (unpublished), 52. SCDIRB copy 390880019622067 has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries: The Beckwith-Browning ...

While Thrinaxodon liorhinus didn’t yet have the sophisticated hearing equipment of modern mammals, it shows that eardrums began evolving much earlier than assumed.

Unknown artist, "Snail" (c. 1350), The Netherlands, illumination on parchment from Jacob van Maerlant's Der naturen bloeme (image via Wikimedia Commons) "Very often, people think that they're laughing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gold miners in the Yukon are discovering mummified ancient animals from the Ice Age. Paleontologists often gather truckloads of ...