Jason M Ramos/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0 Prehistoric Earth was a terrifying place, with giant, fearsome creatures roaming an equally deadly world of erupting volcanoes and primordial swamps. Survival ...

Back in 1999, the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs series spawned a new format: wildlife “documentaries” featuring long-extinct animals. I’m a big fan of this genre, and Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, made ...

Prehistoric Australia was not the sunny, laid back continent we know today. Between 126,000 and 12,000 years ago, during the late Pleistocene era, humans shared the land with terrifying megafauna: ...

Megalodons were massive predators that ruled the world's oceans. Hugo Saláis via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 4.0 For nearly 20 million years, megalodons prowled the world’s oceans. The massive ...

There are plenty of contemporary creatures that inspire fear. For example, the northern green anaconda is the heaviest snake in the world and weighs more than a football player. Should you encounter ...

Evolution usually helps a species survive. But sometimes, a trait that once made perfect sense ends up causing real trouble.

For thousands of years, scientists knew of two tiny marsupials in New Guinea only through fossils and local legend. Researchers had long considered these species extinct. However, a team recently ...