A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a ...

Hundreds of millions of years before dinosaurs, the tallest things on land were not trees or animals but towering, trunk-like ...

Deep within a cave on New Zealand’s North Island, scientists have uncovered a long-lost record of life from a million years ago.

By Will Dunham Feb 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in Canada's province of Nova Scotia the skull of a creature dating to about 307 million years ago that is one of the oldest-known ...

Up to 50 percent of species—which included 12 bird species and 4 frog species—on Aotearoa’s North Island went extinct before ...

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