When some of the more entrepreneurial lifeforms started moving from water to land some 390 million years ago, things soon got ...

The “mighty” new prehistoric whale species was about 40 feet long based on the fossilized bones. Tanaka, et al (2025) Palaeontologia Electronica The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Life on Earth began over four billion years ago, not long ...

Ever wonder how saber-toothed cats and other extinct creatures behaved? Well, a team of scientists unearthed ancient footprints that offer insight into how various prehistoric animals lived as far ...

If you've seen any of the "Ice Age" animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don't know the real ice age. It was an incredible time when the Earth was going through immense systemic changes ...