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A night dive off Komodo Island, Indonesia, turned unforgettable when an underwater videographer came face-to-face with one of the ocean’s best masters of disguise: the marine file snake. At first ...

When hunting for something rare, people often refer to the desired find as a "white whale" — a reference to the eponymous creature in the novel Moby Dick. But it was another marine animal that ...

Scientists have found wolf remains, thousands of years old, on a small, isolated island in the Baltic Sea—a place where the ...

Meet Shasta County's ancient predators, some that dwarfed Tyrannosaurus rex Ancient ancestors to squid swam in the salty water that once covered Redding Prehistoric 10-foot 'sea lizard' once lived in ...

From creek beds to construction sites, North Texans keep stumbling onto dinosaur tracks, marine monsters and other fossils ...

Babirusas are believed to have diverged from their pig ancestors between 26 million and 12 million years ago after getting isolated on Sulawesi when sea levels rose at the end of the last ice age.

Have you ever seen animals today, like certain birds or reptiles, that sort of look... prehistoric? It turns out that once ...

Ever wonder how saber-toothed cats and other extinct creatures behaved? Well, a team of scientists unearthed ancient footprints that offer insight into how various prehistoric animals lived as far ...

Fox, vulture and wild boar figurines found at Neolithic site Experts say find gives unique insight into prehistoric life Stories helped strengthen social bonds in new communities ISTANBUL, Aug 28 ...

His fossils, collected over a decade at a Jurassic site in New South Wales, have revealed a new species of non-biting midge.