Study connects Earth’s first forests to an ocean oxygen rise that unlocked deep-sea habitats and spurred a wave of vertebrate ...

A newly discovered species of a large, crocodile-relative predator has been described via a remarkably well-preserved fossil ...

An alligator snapping turtle – a freshwater species native to the southern United States – has been captured at a lakefront park in Kirkland, Washington. Kirkland Parks this week shared an image ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences confirms that fossilized remains of marine ...

The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era) was a desolate time in Earth's history. Something—a bout of violent ...

An artist's rendering of a prehistoric jawed fish from the Late Devonian called Dunkleosteus. These sorts of large, active vertebrates evolved shortly ...

Researchers who track white sharks say the big fish are being sighted in northern waters more often and also appear to be ...

There's no creature quite as elusive as the pink fairy armadillo. Discover more about this tiny armadillo that looks like a ...

From Homer to Pliny, some of the greatest classical writers may have been inspired - and fooled - by fossil discoveries.

Forget the gentle giants we know today—millions of years ago, whales were anything but peaceful plankton slurpers. A newly ...

Twenty-six million years ago, a deceptively cute-looking whale hunted off the coast of Australia. Its large eyes and ...

The creatures, which ranged in size from that of a fox to more than 50 feet long, divided their time between the coast and ...