Long before forests of tall trees covered the planet, Earth was ruled by something stranger: towering, trunk like organisms ...

Tucked away in the majestic Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon lies Sumpter, a tiny hamlet that seems to have been plucked ...

Giant ancestors of modern-day kangaroos—which previous research has estimated could weigh up to 250 kilograms—may have been ...

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...

Long thought to have walked bipedally, like us, Australia’s extinct giant kangaroos have features that indicate they could also have bounced ...

Scientists previously thought hopping was impossible for Protemnodon goliah.

Many species of fungus across the world produce psilocybin, a chemical with psychedelic effects in humans, but its evolutionary purpose may be to deter mushroom-munching insects ...

It’s easy to assume P. goliah and other giant kangaroos lost their ability to hop as a result of all that bulk. After all, ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...