Paleontologists with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History have discovered a previously unknown prehistoric species — a 270 million-year-old amphibian with wide eyes and a cartoonish grin ...

On both page and screen, we're used to seeing dinosaurs and prehistoric birds as vibrant creatures exhibiting unique and ...

"Prehistoric World" is a new book by Aaron Woodruff, the museum's collection manager for vertebrate paleontology. It includes profiles and illustrations of prehistoric mammals such as Livyatan ...

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Millions of years ago, a large herbivore walked through an ancient valley and snacked on vegetation. The land would later become the Iberian Peninsula, and the valley the creature stood would be ...

An Australian avocado farmer found the fossilized remains of a pterosaur in the Australian outback that scientists now say is a new species of the prehistoric flying reptile that lived alongside the ...

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For millions of years, Earth was the planet of reptiles. Giant flying reptiles controlled the skies while massive dinosaurs were kings of the land. Other prehistoric animals, however, may not have had ...