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

Imagine a world where dragonflies with wingspans rivaling that of a hawk darted through ancient forests, and millipedes as long as a car slithered across the dense, swampy underbrush. This is not the ...

Oct. 18, 2006 — -- Before dinosaurs and birds came on the scene, dragonflies were king, with wingspans of about two and a half feet. That was 300 million years ago, during the late Paleozoic ...

Standing over 2 meters tall, with forelegs tipped with claws, giant sloths lived until around 11,000 years ago. Most scientists believe over-hunting by humans eventually led to their extinction.

Thaís Pansani holding a giant sloth rib bone from central Brazil, thought to be burned by human fire about 13,000 to 15,000 years ago, in Smithsonian’s collection AP ...

‘It is amazing to imagine these giant flying squirrels gliding over rhinos and mastodons living in the forests of Tennessee.’ By Andrew Paul Published Feb 26, 2025 3:02 PM EST Get the Popular ...

Giant prehistoric elephant skull from India belongs to mysterious extinct species. Oct 14, 2024. Rare fossils of extinct elephant document the earliest known instance of butchery in India.