This video explores the introduction of a new animal and the unusually strong reaction it receives It shows how excitement, ...

Standing up to 3 metres tall and weighing hundreds of kilograms, Madagascar’s elephant bird was among the largest birds to ever live. Best known for laying the biggest eggs in Earth’s history, this ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, an enormous lizard roamed ancient Australia, and if it's anything like its descendants, we're ...

Kanazawa Biyori, a regional media outlet rooted in the Hokuriku region of northwestern Japan - one that reports not only on famous landmarks but on the culture that still breathes through this region ...

Volunteers armed with chisels, brushes and protective goggles chip away at rock encasing the bones of a massive prehistoric ...

Read a National Geographic magazine article about pterosaurs, the largest animals that ever flew, and get information, facts, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For centuries, enormous fossilized teeth found along coastlines led people to believe dragons once roamed the Earth. The real ...

A set of giant Megalodon vertebrae that vanished for decades has been rediscovered in Denmark, confirming that this prehistoric shark may have reached at least 79 feet in length.

On West Africa’s stunningly diverse Bioko Island, rare primates are being slaughtered to feed a growing bush-meat trade. When ...

Most new dinosaur species are announced after researchers uncover multiple bones or even an entire skeleton. The discovery of Uragasaurus kalasinensis proves that this is not always necessary.

For more than 25 years, Liopleurodon has been one of the world's most recognizable prehistoric marine predators. Immortalized ...

A major prehistoric center in Ireland was among the first large, organized settlements to develop in Western Europe more than 3,000 years ago, new research reveals. The study, published today in ...