Long before modern bears were around, Earth was home to massive bear species. Like today’s bears, these animals roamed forests and tundra. However, these ancient animals towered over today’s largest ...

A prehistoric giant once dominated ancient skies and used its height and reach to deliver lethal strikes on land. Scientists believe this towering hunter targeted some of the largest plant eaters, ...

The longer I spend in Madagascar, the harder I find it to keep my bearings, stick to the matter-of-factness of global ...

A single fossilized footprint, roughly 1 meter long, has pushed paleontologists to redraw the upper limits of dinosaur size ...

Anacondas achieved their massive size millions of years ago. Discover how anacondas stayed huge while other giant reptiles died out!

By studying the natural world, scientists find blueprints for innovations that can improve human lives—in the genes of a ...

Most skiers and snowboarders kick off the season with a cold brew and some fresh powder. For professional snowboarder Makoto Kuroki, winter 2025 started with an ambush and a high-speed pursuit. While ...

A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from prehistoric excretions. Millions of years ago, a predator like spinosaurus (shown ...

Long before whales and sharks, enormous marine reptiles dominated the oceans with unmatched power. Scientists have reconstructed a 130-million-year-old marine ecosystem from Colombia and found ...

We look back over the year’s wildlife photographs, and hand out some much-deserved gongs to brilliant and beautiful creatures around the world ...

Jeffrey Epstein managed to keep his job at Wall Street giant Bear Stearns after he was caught lying about his résumé — thanks in part to his romantic relationship with the daughter of one of the ...

A postmortem examination has revealed that Cassius, an 18-foot-long (5.5 meters) captive crocodile that died last year in Australia at the age of about 120, succumbed to sepsis. Sealed, "dormant" ...