The Pleistocene epoch, which ended roughly 11,700 years ago, hosted a range of outsized Australian animals, from massive ...

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

A palm-sized fragment of elephant bone, shaped and used as a precision tool almost half a million years ago, has been identified as the oldest known elephant-bone implement in Europe. Although the ...

Prototaxites fossils unearthed in Scotland that will be exhibited in the National Museums Scotland is believed to belong to gigantic organisms ...

Despite their enormous size, giant ancient kangaroos may have been capable of hopping in short, powerful bursts.

NEW YORK — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago.

At the northern boundry of Anuradhapura, where the Malwathu Oya curves through scrubland and forest and the wilderness of ...

Archaeologists have dated prehistoric hand stencils found in limestone caves on Indonesia’s Muna island to nearly 67,800 years ago, making them the world’s oldest known paintings.

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

Step into Arizona’s ancient past and see the actual footprints left by prehistoric giants in this remote, awe-inspiring ...

It was a Cro Magnon opus. Europe might not be the birthplace of human symbolic culture as previously thought. International scientists have discovered a stencil of a hand in Indonesia that dates back ...

This man set out to expand his backyard ponds and ended up with one of the rarest prehistoric fish in the world. At a local fish store, he discovered an entire pond filled with paddlefish—ancient ...