It's a bit like Cinderella trying on her glass slipper... except the shoe is squishy mud, the foot weighs tons, and the owner ...

The analysis showed that young sauropods, not their colossal parents, were the most common prey for carnivorous dinosaurs.

Researchers have found some of the biggest dinosaur footprints ever. They are so huge that an adult could curl up inside one ...

But scientists think they finally know what caused all these bizarre marks – a stampede of sea turtles 80 million years ago.

In the shadow of a coal mine in southern Greece, archaeologists discovered the oldest known handheld wooden tools ever found.

Dragon legends appear in cultures separated by vast distances, raising questions about their possible origins. Some ...

Fossil evidence suggests that an enormous lizard once dominated prehistoric landscapes, surpassing all modern reptiles in size. Scientists have reconstructed its appearance and scale from fragmentary ...

Giant 550 pound kangaroos could still hop scientists prove by studying fossil bones and calculating forces on ancient tendons ...

The Chocolate Hills are 1,776 mounds on Bohol Island in the Philippines where grassy cover turns brown during the dry season.

Scientists studying the fossil remains of giant prehistoric kangaroos have found that even animals weighing more than 200kg may not have been too big to bounce, overturning long-held assumptions about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A life reconstruction of Prototaxites taiti growing in the 407-million-year-old Rhynie chert ecosystem. (CREDIT: M. Humpage, ...

Why it's incredible: The hills change color with the seasons, inspiring legends that giants formed the mounds from mud. The Chocolate Hills are a formation made of 1,776 limestone, grass-covered ...