Giant kangaroos that lived during the Ice Age may not have been as slow and grounded as once believed. A new study finds ...

This photo shows how gigantic an Irish Elk looks compared to two humans. Megaloceros giganteus - literally "giant horn" - is ...

Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

For a long time, scientists thought there was a hard limit to hopping. Go beyond a certain body weight, the logic went, and ...

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

Giant ancestors of modern-day kangaroos—which previous research has estimated could weigh up to 250 kilograms—may have been ...

Scientists previously thought hopping was impossible for Protemnodon goliah.

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

Learn more about ancient giant kangaroos and the previous research claiming they were too heavy to hop. A new study finds ...

Australia’s First Peoples were more early paleontologists than extinction-driving butchers, a group of scientists argue. For decades, the debate over whether the first humans to inhabit present-day ...