Prehistoric Earth was home to giant animals like huge dinosaurs, marine reptiles, and flying pterosaurs. Many grew large due ...
A California high school student participating in a summer paleontology program has discovered the remarkably preserved skull ...
Three hundred million years ago, dragonfly-like creatures with wingspans stretching 70 centimeters patrolled the skies of a world nothing like our own. These griffinflies, as paleontologists call them ...
(Raul Martin) Of all the dinosaur superlatives, “biggest dinosaur ever” is one of the most prized. The trouble is that we don’t really know who deserves the title. Sauropods like Apatosaurus (once ...
Some fossils preserve far more than bones, capturing the exact moments prehistoric animals suffered catastrophic and often ...
A newly discovered raptor-like dinosaur from Patagonia is changing how scientists think about ancient predators. Named Kank australis, the 70-million-year-old dinosaur appears to have hunted fish much ...
An artist’s reconstruction of a finned octopus of the species Nanaimoteuthis haggarti that reached a length estimated at up to 18.6 meters (61.02 feet) and lived about 86 to 72 million years ago ...
Video. Scientists in Thailand have identified a gigantic new long-necked dinosaur that may be the largest ever found in Southeast Asia. The species, named Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis, is estimated to ...