Riley Black’s new book, When the Earth was Green, uses the latest research to envision the ancient worlds of our favorite prehistoric animals.

Some animals have barely changed over millions of years, surviving mass extinctions and climate shifts without evolving much!

Learn more about a time period marked by an intense burst of evolution. 3 min read The ... the most successful and enduring of all prehistoric animals. More than 17,000 species are known to ...

Fossils are physical evidence of prehistoric animals and plants. They tell us about the history of our planet, from climate and evolution to diets and diseases. There may be more to these prehistoric ...

We have specialized jaws, whose hinges came together early in our evolution to create the ear bones that let us hear better than other animals. We have complex teeth that let us grind and chew our ...

afarensis was bipedal and moved more like a human than an ape, giving scientists more clues about human evolution ... as well ...

He became first to demonstrate prehistoric migration in two animal species during the last glacial period. The 2025 Tübingen Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology Prize goes to anthropologist and ...

Thank goodness for the irrepressible urge of humans (and other animals) to joke and play around ... what turned out to be one of the wonders of prehistoric finds: a trail of hominid footprints ...

O’Brien examined the fossil records of 18 animal species that lived ... research goal is to identify the prehistoric factors that controlled human evolution in Africa. In this context, he ...