A 9-year-old boy's accidental discovery of a 1.2-million-year-old stegomastodon skull in New Mexico has stunned scientists ...

Mississippi has changed over millions of years and everything from sea monster to dire wolf fossils can be found here.

Fossil teeth show extinct giant kangaroos spent their lives close to home – and perished when the climate changed.

Australia’s giant Protemnodon kangaroos didn’t die out everywhere at the same time. Instead, extinction proceeded one habitat ...

Two Eromanga women will have their contributions to the field of palaeontology recognised this Mother’s Day with a newly ...

Learn more about the straight-tusked elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus, which disappeared from Europe between around 50,000 and ...

A new peer-reviewed study has found that, unlike modern kangaroos, the extinct marsupial megafauna Protemnodon were less mobile, which they believe, along with a change in climate, led to their ...

Finding fossils of creatures the size of rats is ... Mastodons and mammoths roamed the land as did other megafauna such as giant ground sloths and short-faced bears. Ancient llamas, bison, dire ...