As ancient meat-eaters grew, they also died out
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Being the biggest dog might pay off at feeding time, but species that grow too large are likely to be be more vulnerable to extinction, new research suggests.
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A drink of milk was off the menu for Europeans until only a few thousand years ago, say researchers from London.
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Were early mammals timid creatures suitable only for eating? Not all of them, suggest two remarkable fossils from China
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Learning how to live off the sea played a vital role in the expansion of early humans around the globe.
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Humans might have finished off the woolly mammoths, but the genetics of the giants apparently helped them decline well beforehand, scientists now find.  The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) was coated in hair up to 20 inches long and possessed extremely long, curved tusks up to 16 feet in length. The giants lived for tens of thousands of years, apparently going extinct roughly 12,000 years ago, around the end of the last ice age.   For years, scientists suspected that ancient human tribes hunted the mammoths and other ice age giants to oblivion. ...
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Fossilised remains found in southern China may hold the answer to a question that has long stumped palaeontologists: Just what is the purpose of the long neck on a group of predatory reptiles that roamed the earth millions of years ago?
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At a time when resource conservation is at the forefront, the days of eating 200 pounds of meat a year may also be on the way out.
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An ancient version of global warming may have been to blame for the greatest mass extinction in Earth's history.
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T. rex was one of the largest meat-eaters ever to walk the land when it died out some 65 million years ago. At an elephant-like 6 tons, it stretched about 40 feet to 45 feet long and measured about 13 feet tall at the hip. The adult skull alone was 5 feet long, with teeth up to a foot long.
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On a remote Indonesian island, archeologists were astonished to discover a new, small human species that walked the earth just 18,000 years ago. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Fossil hunters say they have discovered bones of two massive meat-eating dinosaurs in Africa. In the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno and co-author Stephen Brusatte named one Kryptops palaios, or "old hidden face," because of a horny covering over its face.
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Fossil hunters say they have discovered bones of two massive meat-eating dinosaurs in Africa.
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The first vertebrate species to begin hopping and crawling on land 350 million years ago may be the first to die out, according to a study released yesterday that found a third of all amphibian species worldwide are threatened with extinction.
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THE number of wild animals across the world has plummeted by 40 per cent in the past 30 years because of changes in the way humans are living.
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People who lived in the mining town of Guanajuato, Mexico, more than a century ago left behind a scientific mother lode: their own accidentally mummified bodies.
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Neandertals may have died out like a bad movie&#151;by word of mouth. Modern humans' complex use of language sounded the defeat of their big-browed cousins, a new study says.
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They were unwieldy pond-dwelling predators with long necks that didn&#39;t have enough joints and neck ribs that must have kept their heads practically immobile.