For over 50 years, a record-breaking dinosaur, discovered by a paleontologist at the University of Oklahoma, was hidden from public viewing, even spending years under the Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.

A new study reveals how the 415-million-year-old Praearcturus gigas grew to a massive size before dinosaurs even existed.

We look at the scale of the largest animals in Earth’s history, from prehistoric giants to modern species.

Enigmatic 415 million-year-old fossils belong to a giant scorpion that may have reached lengths of around 3 feet (1 meter), a ...

These UK fossils have puzzled palaeontologists for more than a century. Now they’ve been re-examined and identified as an ...

Giant scorpions the size of a baseball bat with pincers the size of a pencil once stalked what is now England and Wales.

Praearcturus gigas was among the first large predators to ever stalk the land, measuring over a metre in length.

The Batagay Crater – sometimes referred to as the ‘Gateway to Hell’ – began to form after deforestation occurred in the Sakha ...

Discover the newly opened African-inspired zone at Rainforest Wild Adventure, featuring endangered okapis and immersive ...

Dragonflies the size of hawks once stalked Earth’s skies. Scientists thought they knew why they’d gone away – but a decades old theory may have just been disproven ...

A newly identified ocean predator from prehistoric Texas is giving the name "T. rex" a whole new meaning. Scientists say a ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, prehistoric seas and rivers were full of strange fish with armor, fins, lungs, slime, and ...