A leopard-sized “fearsome” predator that hunted early elephants 30 million years ago has been identified following the ...

Divers in Florida’s Steinhatchee River stumbled upon hundreds of pristine fossils from an obscure Ice Age period, including ...

Prehistoric times were pretty strange, to put it lightly, and the same could be said of the species from that period. Here ...

Elephant fossils discovered in the Kashmir Valley have revealed a surprising connection between early humans and one of the ...

Fossils indicate that large baboons and zebras were especially abundant in Olorgesailie between 1 million and 700,000 years ago. Many of these species probably became extinct around 300,000 years ago.

The prehistoric human skull found in the Petralona Cave in Northern Greece challenges the Out of Africa theory of the origin of Homo sapiens. The human skull discovered in the Chalkidiki cave is one ...

Perth Zoo’s former elephant Permai has arrived safely at her new South Australian home, with keepers saying they are relieved the trip went safely. After a 40-hour trek from South Perth to the ...

A tourist has died after being trampled by an elephant while visiting Kruger National Park in South Africa, officials say. The animal "charged and trampled" the victim on Saturday, according to a ...

Ian Walton/Getty A tourist has been trampled to death by an elephant while visiting a national park in South Africa. The victim was “charged and trampled” by an elephant near Crocodile River ...

Authorities are currently investigating the events that led up to the incident. LONDON -- An elephant trampled a tourist on safari to death in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, officials said.

All of Earth’s creatures have the potential to slowly fossilize, making them discoverable after millions of years to be studied and entered into the annals of science. That includes those that ...

It was mistakenly identified as a crocodile skull, a forgivable mix-up given the variety of prehistoric reptilian remains found in the region. For years, the skull sat in storage, unrecognized for ...