Palaeontology

South America is home to some of the most distinctive mammals on Earthgiant armadillos, tiny anteaters, the world's largest rodent, and its smalles...

Some 250 million years ago, the earth suffered the greatest biological crisis in its history. Around 95 percent of all living species died out--a g...

Humans have gone underground for survival for thousands of years, from underground cities in Turkey to Cold War-era bunkers. But our burrowing ro...

In 1993, Alaskan artist and paleo-shark enthusiast Ray Troll stumbled upon the weirdest fossil he had ever seen-a platter-sized spiral of tightly w...

Today, we know that a mammoth is an extinct type of elephant that was covered with long fur and lived in the north country during the ice ages. But...

Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet. We have hunted them for thous...

Every year millions of museum visitors marvel at the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures discovered by John Bell Hatcher. The li...

John J. McKay brings together dozens of original documents and illustrations to show how an odd assortment of characters solved the mystery of the ...

Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals have always fascinated people but they pose vast problems for the artist. How do you go about recreating t...