We took a deep dive into the world of Daeodon - one of the most terrifying prehistoric mammals to ever roam North America. Often called the “Hell Pig,” this massive, bone-crushing creature was more ...

This weekend, saber-toothed cats, giant armadillos, and a creature called the "hell pig" invade the Museum of York County. We ...

A prequel more than 23 million years in the making is under construction at the Museum of York County. This isn't Star Wars, but it is from a long time ago and the featured creatures may sound like ...

The centerpiece is Diana, a life-sized model of a Daedon or hell pig. In its hand-painted habitat setting, the long-extinct animal resembles something between a hog and a hippo. A skull fossil ...

While there could be thousands of billions of ants crawling around the Earth today, few match the fiercity of the extinct “hell ants” of the Cretaceous period. From the subfamily ...

That changed when researchers uncovered a piece of Burmese amber containing a hell ant locked in combat with its prey—an extinct cockroach-like insect. The two creatures had been trapped mid-struggle, ...

Sometime during the Cretaceous period, 99 million years ago, a prehistoric hell ant trapped a tasty treat — a relative of the cockroach — in its scythe-like jaw and protruding horn.

The babirusa, also called the "deer-pig," lives in Indonesia ... Their sparse hair and wrinkled greyish-brown skin give them a prehistoric look. These animals inhabit dense forests, mangroves ...

Babirusas are also sometimes called "prehistoric pigs" because they appear in cave drawings from nearly 40,000 years ago. Scientists don't know exactly why male babirusas have these tusks.