More than 30,000 teeth, bones and other fossils from a 249 million-year-old community of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, bony fish and sharks have been discovered on the remote Arctic island of ...

While they didn't live in a pineapple under the Phosphoria Sea, it turns out a good chunk of the prehistoric Intermountain ...

The pterosaur likely used all four limbs to propel itself in the air, as seen in bats today, researchers have found. The pterosaur likely used all four limbs to propel itself in the air, as seen in ...

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The remains of a giant “sea monster” that once dominated the oceans was unearthed by geologists on a riverbank in the Mississippi River, scientists have said. Geologists discovered a fossilised single ...

The Earth has seen some truly gigantic snakes throughout its history, and these creatures were so massive and powerful that ...

Leedsichthys also sported 40,000 needle-like teeth. Yet for its prodigious size and toothiness, it was a gentle giant, like ...

When dinosaurs ruled the land, other groups of prehistoric reptiles dominated the waters. Their bones have also fossilised and they reveal much about how these ‘sea dragons’ lived. They tell us about ...

Deep in the frozen wilderness of Antarctica, buried beneath more than 60 million years of sediment, scientists have uncovered a fossil that is reshaping the scientific narrative about how ancient ...

Two hundred and forty five million years ago, 95 percent of all species were extinguished from the face of the earth. A little more than 200 years ago, naturalists in Maastricht, Netherlands unearthed ...