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Large, bone-crushing dogs stalked 'Rhino Pompeii' after Yellowstone eruption 12 million years ago, ancient footprints reveal
By Patrick Pester published
Researchers have found footprints of large, bone-crushing dogs in the 12 million-year-old Ashfall Fossil Beds in northeastern Nebraska, suggesting these large carnivores may have survived a cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption that covered parts of North America in ash.

How to watch 'Prehistoric Planet' – Streaming details as new season 'Ice Age' lands on Apple TV
By Fran Ruiz last updated
Here’s how to watch Prehistoric Planet, including the upcoming season 'Ice Age', as well as everything you need to know about Apple TV+’s hit documentary series.

A new Apple TV series brings to life iconic animals of the last ice age.
By Sascha Pare published
A clip from the upcoming series "Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age" shows how iconic ice age creatures adapted to their changing environment as temperatures rose and ice sheets started to melt.

Mammoth RNA sequenced for the first time, marking a giant leap toward understanding prehistoric life
By Jeanne Timmons published
Scientists successfully sequence the RNA from woolly mammoths found in Siberia that lived up between 10,000 thousand and 50,000 years ago.

Giant North American 'hell pigs' could crunch bones like lions 30 million years ago, tooth analysis reveals
By Patrick Pester published
Archaeotherium, or North American "hell pigs," had different feeding strategies depending on their size, according to preliminary research presented at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 2025 annual meeting.

240 million-year-old 'warrior' crocodile ancestor from Pangaea had plated armor — and it looked just like a dinosaur
By Sarah Wild published
The armor-plated lizard is an ancestor of modern crocodiles and lived just before dinosaurs took over Earth.

First of its kind 'butt drag fossil' discovered in South Africa — and it was left by a fuzzy elephant relative 126,000 years ago
By Charles Helm, Lynne Quick published
The first hyrax fossil tracks and traces ever to be discovered were identified on South Africa's coast.

Ancient 'frosty' rhino from Canada's High Arctic rewrites what scientists thought they knew about the North Atlantic Land Bridge
By Sascha Pare published
Researchers have gained new insights into rhinoceros evolution and the longevity of the North Atlantic Land Bridge from analyzing the perfectly preserved fossils of a "frosty" Arctic rhino.

Nanotyrannus isn't a 'mini T. Rex' after all — it's a new species, 'dueling dinosaurs' fossil reveals
By Chris Simms published
An argument over whether fossils from several small dinosaurs represent a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex or smaller adults of a separate species may finally be settled.
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