When it comes to creature features in which the creature in question actually does (or once did) exist in our reality, the ...

Why do some ancient animals become fossils while others disappear without a trace? A new study reveals that part of the answer lies in the body itself. The research shows that an animal's size and ...

Learn how fossil footprints prove pterosaurs walked the Earth long before they vanished from the sky.

A long time ago, strange predators roamed the Caribbean — not just birds and snakes, but land-dwelling crocodiles that ...

Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from ...

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and ...

Knife-toothed reptiles called sebecids went extinct on the mainland 10 million years ago. New fossil evidence puts them on an island 4 million years ago.

Imagine a world before dinosaurs, where the land was ruled by toothy predators with a terrifying bite. Long before the famous ...

Prehistoric animals’ appeal isn’t limited to children, George added. “A majority of the time I catch more adults staring in ...

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

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