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

Some animals once believed extinct have stunned scientists by reappearing decades, centuries, or even millions of years after vanishing from the fossil record or disappearing from human observation.

Back in 1999, the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs series spawned a new format: wildlife “documentaries” featuring long-extinct animals. I’m a big fan of this genre, and Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, made ...

Scientists still debate the purpose of this dinosaur's iconic horns and spiky head plate. Find out what we’ve learned about how Triceratops lived and why it went extinct.

The music produced for Apple TV's "Prehistoric Planet" was created in part with custom instruments made from actual fossils and replicas of skulls. Apple's streaming service is home to a variety of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. When people think of lions, the image that comes to mind is ...

A fossilized rib from a ferocious, extinct whale was discovered in a creek bank in Yazoo County, Mississippi. The rib belonged to a zygorhiza, a toothed whale that lived 34 to 38 million years ago and ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

Some of us are old souls. A few of us, if we're honest, are prehistoric ones. There's a particular kind of person who reads ...