Fossil jaws reveal giant prehistoric octopuses may have ruled ancient oceans as powerful apex predators during the Cretaceous ...

A cave in the Pyrenees shows that prehistoric people repeatedly used high-mountain areas for copper mining over 7,000 years ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Disney may have its dinosaurs speaking English, but that seems almost tame compared with the startling conclusions that ...

Researchers reconstructed the Triassic food web using nothing but scat. Researchers have conducted what could be the largest study ever of dinosaur poop. The findings shed new light on how dinosaur's ...

Giant prehistoric insects, some with two-foot wingspans, once roamed Earth. For years, scientists believed higher oxygen ...

The ancient past is remembered mostly for its diversity of dinosaurs, but before dinosaurs, insects ruled the world and they ...

When we think of prehistoric life, most of us picture dinosaurs, fossils, or something locked away in a museum. But not ...

The Jurassic Period lasted from about 201.3 to 145 million years ago. Evolution moved incredibly fast then, as did the creatures it created. In popular culture, we tend to think of dinosaurs as slow, ...

 *NBC has released the official trailer and key art for “Surviving Earth,” a new docuseries that explores the resilience of ...

A tremendous release of methane gas frozen beneath the sea floor heated the Earth by up to 13 degrees Fahrenheit (7 degrees Celsius) 55 million years ago, a new NASA study confirms. NASA scientists ...

This period of time was when dinosaurs first evolved. The continents we live on today were part of one land mass that scientists call Pangaea. The climate was hot and dinosaurs flourished after the ...

Eclipso has unveiled its third virtual reality experience this year, this one covering literally billions of years of the Earth experience in a mere 45 minutes. “Life Chronicles,” which debuts Nov. 25 ...