The curious minds at What If explore Earth during the age of giant insects, revealing prehistoric ecosystems, predator-prey dynamics, and survival strategies.

In northeastern Brazil, a fossil long stored in a museum revealed a new pterosaur species preserved inside a regurgitalite—fossilized vomit from a prehistoric predator.

In a state better known for its delicious seafood and as the home of the United States Navy, there’s a new effort to create ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dating back 430,000 years, at the Marathousa 1 site in ...

Men and women differ in morbid curiosity for evolutionary reasons. The psychopathological reasons for daredevils, like free ...

For a long time, scientists thought there was a hard limit to hopping. Go beyond a certain body weight, the logic went, and ...

Bressay may be hidden in plain sight just across from Lerwick but it’s easily the most rewarding seven-minute ferry ride you’ll ever take ...

It is no secret that the tyrannosaurus rex was one of the largest carnivorous creatures to walk the earth millions of years ago, but a new study suggests it may have taken the predator decades to ...

What was the biggest dinosaur to ever walk the Earth? It’s a question that continues to spark debate among paleontologists, ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

This is Part 3 of a three-part series. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.The first wave of the “Sixth Extinction” outlined in ...