An international team of researchers, led by paleontologists of the University of Liège, has investigated the biting capabilities of extinct predatory marine reptiles, revealing how these formidable ...

Volunteers armed with chisels, brushes and protective goggles chip away at rock encasing the bones of a massive prehistoric ...

Rather than flying like a modern bird, Jian likely traveled by gliding, more like a flying squirrel.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Engineering simulations of 16 Cretaceous marine reptile jaws show mosasaurs and polycotylid plesiosaurs had fundamentally ...

Ancient whales had extremely sharp predator teeth similar to lions, Australian scientists said Wednesday in a discovery they believe debunks theories the mammals used their teeth to filter feed like ...

A young visitor to Badlands National Park made an extraordinary find. Seven-year-old Kylie Ferguson discovered the fossilized skull of an ancient saber-toothed predator. Experts identified the ...

The first four-legged vertebrates did not grow up like tadpoles after all. That idea has shaped the story of life on land for decades. Early tetrapods, the ancient animals that gave rise to mammals, ...

A new Rice University-led analysis of the remains of ancient predators reveals new information about how prehistoric humans did—or didn't—find their food. "Sabertooth carcass consumption behavior and ...

A rare fossilized vomit was found in Germany. This ancient vomit dates back to the Early Permian period, approximately 290 ...

Fearsome enormous creatures lay beneath the waves while dinosaurs roamed the Earth, now a new exhibition at London's Natural History Museum explores what lessons we can learn about climate change from ...

The sight of a saltwater crocodile basking on a mudbank is one of the most iconic and intimidating images of northern Australia. Yet the crocodiles that inhabit the region today are just the survivors ...

The Western Interior Seaway, which existed roughly 80 million years ago, split North America into North and South. It was a warm, shallow sea teeming with life from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of ...