Scientists use DNA analysis on Megaloceros (or Irish Elk) bones to determine that the Giant Deer survived well past the peak of the Ice Age in Southern Germany.
Modern comb jellies are jellyfish-like invertebrates that look like floating plastic bags and often sport trailing tentacles. But their prehistoric relatives traded their arms for heavy armor.
The majority of living cockroaches are scavengers, feeding on detritus along the forest floor or inside our kitchens. But 100 million years ago, a terrifying roach hunted other insects with spiky limbs.
New research into the feeding habits of a long-extinct mysterious fish reveals that it may be the first animal ever known to use vertical thrashing of external teeth to kill its prey. And it had some seriously crazy teeth.
