The discovery of a 12,000-year-old carved scene showing a human confronting an animal is forcing archaeologists to rethink ...

A 12,000-year-old clay figurine recovered by archaeologists in Israel represents the earliest known depiction of human-animal ...

(CN) — Archeologists have uncovered another puzzle piece of the history behind prehistoric mammals following the discovery of a well-preserved fossil of a curious little creature whose name directly ...

From woolly mammoths to giant sloths, via some lesser-known ice-age beasts like 'killer koalas', the visuals in this ...

A 12,000-YEAR-OLD figure of a woman with a goose draped over her back is the oldest human-animal sculpture ever discovered.

Six million years ago, the shallow swamps of what's now southern China may have been dominated by massive, 110-lb. (50 kilograms) otters that have since gone extinct. And now, researchers have found ...

Paleontologists have uncovered a previously unknown prehistoric mammal species that was among the largest of its time. The partial remains of the newly identified species were originally collected ...

DENVER (CBS4)-- A new, prehistoric mammal has been discovered and it is described as "beyond bizarre." Paleontologists at the Denver Musuem of Nature and Science were part of a team of researchers ...

A New York homeowner made a remarkable discovery in their backyard last September. The teeth from a complete mastodon jaw were peaking out of the soil. The stunning find near the hamlet of Scotchtown ...

Aug. 18 (UPI) --Mammals were mostly an afterthought during the age of the dinosaurs. For 150 million years, reptiles dominated the planet. But the discovery of three new prehistoric mammal species, ...

No mammal seems more perplexing than the platypus. Except maybe the fossilized remains of the extinct marine reptile Eretmorhipis carrolldongi. Like the platypus, this recently discovered prehistoric ...