(Natural News) A bird that weighed around 992 lbs (450 kg) – nearly as heavy as a polar bear – was discovered in a the Taurida Cave in Crimea, Ukraine. This is the first evidence scientists have found suggesting that early Europeans lived alongside one of the most enormous birds to have ever existed. Previous […]

(Natural News) What started out as a simple construction job turned into a mission to find, document and retrieve the remains of a prehistoric giant. Builders tasked with excavating a site near a retirement community in Denver, Colorado, stumbled upon a partial skeleton, which was later identified by paleontologists as that of a large adult […]

(Natural News) In June of 2019, miners employed by Enchanted Designs Limited were busy at work in Alberta, Canada looking for ammolite, a rainbow-colored gemstone used in luxury jewelry, when they instead found something arguably much more valuable. They found the fossilized remains of an ancient sea monster that lived about 70 million years ago during the […]

(Natural News) A typical beach stroll usually ends with someone finding a few pretty seashells, coral fragments and colorful beach glass. One man, however, found something prehistoric after going on what was supposed to be an ordinary beach stroll with his family. According to Harvey Wall, he and his family were looking for seashells when […]

(Natural News) They may have died out 66 million years ago, but thanks to a photographer’s new series, dinosaurs such as the fearsome predator Tyrannosaurus rex and the imposing behemoth Triceratops are coming back to life. “I sought to really bring these animals to life,” Christian Voigt said about his project, which he has dubbed “Evolution.” According to Voigt, the […]

(Natural News) Imagine stumbling upon a fossil from the Pleistocene era during a trek at a farm. That’s exactly what happened to a teenager who, while hunting for arrowheads, discovered a 30-inch-long fossilized mastodon jaw complete with teeth, on a farm in southern Iowa. According to paleontologists from the University of Iowa who analyzed the […]

(Natural News) Millions of years ago, Texas supported large populations of prehistoric antelopes, camels, elephants, horses, and rhinos. Its rich selection of fauna matched those found in the Serengeti, the vast ecosystem of Africa that brims with wildlife. The fossil evidence for the “Texas Serengeti” first emerged during the Great Depression. Local workers hauled thousands […]

(Natural News) Imagine a crab with a lobster’s carapace, a shrimp’s mouth, and bulging eyes, plus the ability to swim. This stuff of seafood dreams and Lovecraftian nightmares is called the chimera crab, and it prowled the seas of the ancient Earth. Its discoverers dubbed it Callichimaera perplexa, “perplexing beautiful chimera” in Latin. The name came from […]

(Natural News) Nearly 13,000 years ago, Earth’s Northern Hemisphere got clobbered by a fragmenting comet. New evidence found by University of California Santa Barbara researchers suggested that the extreme impact event also affected the weather and ecology of the Southern Hemisphere. The Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB) Impact Hypothesis proposed that the comet strike triggered climate […]