May 30, noon-3 p.m. Kick off the summer with a roaring good time at the library’s Jurassic-themed opening event. This special ...

John, Paul, George and Ringo all had their Cannes Film Festival moments, but the Fab Four never hit the Croisette as the ...

A prehistoric hidden cave and hippo bones found beneath a Welsh castle could transform understanding of ancient life in Britain, researchers said Thursday, calling the site a "once-in-a-lifetime ...

A single fossilized bone has unlocked a surprising chapter in Taiwan’s ancient past — one in which a giant python stretching more than 13 feet long slithered across an island that today has no pythons ...

The fossil was recovered from the Chiting Formation, a geological deposit in southwestern Taiwan formed roughly 800,000 to 400,000 years ago during the Pleistocene epoch. Cheng-Hsiu Tsai of National ...

A 13-foot python. A 23-foot crocodile. Saber-toothed cats and mammoths. These aren’t creatures from some far-flung corner of prehistoric Africa or South America. They once lived on Taiwan — the same ...

Researchers have identified fossil evidence of a giant python — estimated to exceed 13 feet in length — that once lived on Taiwan, an island where no pythons exist today. The surprising discovery is ...

Archaeologists are keen to learn more about the specific diets and culinary practices of ancient populations around the globe. An interdisciplinary team of scientists analyzed the residues on ...

Humans have changed a lot over the past few hundred millennia. We evolved from ancient apes, which are believed to have in turn evolved from sea creatures that existed in the distant, distant past, ...