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 ...

Tunas did not become large, fast and warm-blooded simply because an asteroid cleared the oceans of competing predators. Their defining traits appeared separately over tens of millions of years, ...

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

Classification and scale This animal was a mosasaur,a group of large marine reptiles that lived during the Late Cretaceous period, distinct from dinosaurs. Measuring up to 43 feet long, Tylosaurus rex ...

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 ...

Ichthyosaurs were the main predators of the oceans millions of years ago. Like reptilian dolphins with a mean streak, they grew between 10 and 43 feet long and had a long snout armed with viciously ...

From brightly colored birds to the much-loved sugar glider, Australia's native animals are a sight to behold. The island continent is home to nearly 600,000 plants, animals and insects, many of which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Researchers studying fossils from Spain have identified a prehistoric "bear-dog" that offers new clues about ...

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 ...