A new study of ancient fossils found that millions of years ago these creatures grew to more than a whopping 5 metres in ...

Learn how anacondas are defying expectations of reptile experts by keeping their ancient body size despite drastic ...

The collection of markings is now thought to have been left by a herd of ancient sea turtles that had been frightened off by ...

When physician Pedro Lucas Porcela Aurelio unearthed a fossil in Brazil's southern Rio Grande do Sul state in 2014, he could ...

Ancient flying reptiles called pterosaurs learned to fly while their brains were small, taking a very different path from ...

Anacondas reached their massive form around 12.4 million years ago and have stayed the same since. A research team, led by ...

Kristi Curry Rogers receives funding from The National Science Foundation and the David B. Jones Foundation. It may be hard to imagine, but once upon a time, dinosaurs didn’t dominate their world.

_Eoraptor lunensis_ lived roughly 230 million years ago, at a time when dinosaurs were small and rare. Jordan Harris courtesy of Kristi Curry Rogers, CC BY-SA It may be hard to imagine, but once upon ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a colossal shark that lived off northern Australia about 115 million years ago, ...

There was a time before the dinosaurs when ancient sheep-sized reptiles thrived on Earth. While they were numerous, a new study reveals that their diets actually led to their own starvation by wearing ...

Fossils of two Triassic reptiles show severed heads and necks with bite marks, highlighting a drawback of the extremely long necks common to many ancient sea creatures. “We provide the first tangible ...

Ancient Greek myths of dragons, krakens, and other legendary creatures were inspired by real animals and fossils alike.