The first people to enter the Americas may have sailed from Japan around 20,000 years ago, according to a new analysis of ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed ...

Largely outshone by fossils of horses, the earliest camels are getting another look from scientists determined to sort out ...

Analysis of a massive wooden monument has uncovered new secrets of Cahokia, America’s greatest lost civilization.

For decades, scientists have argued over whether dinosaurs were already fading before an asteroid ended their reign 66 ...

Stories of towering beings once roaming North America have echoed for centuries. Some say the myths hide real prehistoric truths—others call them fantasy.

ANTH copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift from the Margery Masinter Foundation Endowment for Illustrated Books. Contents Why waltes was a woman's game / Kevin Leonard -- Playing ...

The Cairo Fossil Forest is the second oldest in the world. These forests mark a turning point in Earth's history because they ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. An exhibit on Prehistoric hunters and ...

While the great Tyrannosaurus rex stalked prehistoric North America, a very different apex predator prowled ancient Argentina: the newly discovered megaraptor Joaquinraptor casali. When ...

A reconstruction of the newly discovered megaraptor Joaquinraptor casali from Argentina with a Cretaceous-era crocodile arm in its mouth. Illustration by Andrew McAfee, Carnegie Museum of Natural ...

A croc bone locked between the 70-million-year-old predator’s jaws gives scientists a rare look into its life and possibly its last feast. A reconstruction of the newly discovered megaraptor ...