Belle’s location in Maries County places it within reasonable driving distance of several larger Missouri cities, making the cowbell an achievable destination for day trippers or a worthy stop on ...

Learn more about the giant nameless vulture that likely fed on dead megafauna.

By far the largest ever found of its kind, the spiny fossil predator "would have made enough scampi to feed an army," one ...

While most spiders are small and harmless, some species grow to impressive sizes, showcasing fascinating adaptations and hunting strategies. Here are seven of the largest spider species found in the ...

Cliff-rappelling scientists uncovered a crossbow bolt, part of a slingshot and 25 shoes in ancient vulture nesting sites ...

Indigenous Australians may have been early "paleontologists," not big-game hunters, according to a new analysis ...

Understanding what the environment looked like millions of years ago is essential for piecing together how our earliest ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still home to enigmatic megafauna—large land animals such as giant marsupial ...

Incision marks likely made by humans on the fossilised bone of an ancient kangaroo challenges the ‘humans wiped out ...

New research led by UNSW Sydney palaeontologists challenges the idea that indigenous Australians hunted Australia's megafauna to extinction ...

"The pace of change we’re seeing today is unlike anything we know of in the past 66 million years," said ecologist Jack Hatfield.