These 10 incredible animals once roamed Earth’s oceans, skies, and forests—but now they’re gone forever, victims of extinction caused by nature, human impact, and time itself. [extinct animals] [lost ...

Most people see the Central Valley as all agriculture,” one paleontologist said, but it’s a rich source of prehistoric ...

Tyrannosaurus rex leather accessories could be available by the end of the year. Lab-Grown Leather, based in Newcastle, teamed up with The Organoid Company to grow extinct hides using dinosaur DNA. A ...

A prehistoric hell ant that lived among dinosaurs 113 million years ago had an unusual way to kill its prey and sheds new ...

A new study indicates the giant reptile Deinosuchus is not a close relative of modern alligators, as scientists previously ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a new report. The hell ant, which was preserved in limestone, is a member ...

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived ...

Researchers may have discovered Mississippi's largest ever mosasaur after pulling a Cretaceous-aged fossil out of a riverbed ...

Scientists now say Deinosuchus was not an alligatoroid at all. Unlike its freshwater cousins, it retained the salt glands ...

For David Burnham, paleontology isn’t just a science — it’s storytelling, and the stories are written in ancient creatures’ ...

The prehistoric crocodile relative may have tolerated both freshwater and saltwater habitats, allowing it to conquer North ...

A massive, extinct reptile that once snacked on dinosaurs had a broad snout like an alligator’s, but it owed its success to a trait that modern alligators lack: ...