When the asteroid ended the age of non-avian dinosaurs, it cleared ecological space on a global scale. Small survivors ...

The image of kangaroos hopping their way across the Australian outback is iconic – and it turns out it might have been an even more impressive sight during the Pleistocene. A new study by researchers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A life reconstruction of Prototaxites taiti growing in the 407-million-year-old Rhynie chert ecosystem. (CREDIT: M. Humpage, ...

Deep in the heart of the Sahara, scientists have uncovered Spinosaurus mirabilis — a spectacular new predator crowned with a massive, scimitar-shaped crest that may once have blazed with color under ...

Left: Life reconstruction of the giant Jurassic ichthyosaur Temnodontosaurus, highlighting the winglike flipper and the unusual structures observed in the fin. Credit: Joschua Knüppe. Right: ...

BEIJING The remains of a giant, birdlike dinosaur as tall as the formidable tyrannosaur have been found in China, a surprising discovery that indicates a more complicated evolutionary process for ...

The fossils would later travel all over the world much like the animal did in life, before being stuffed in storage and ...

You won’t believe what scientists just dug up in Antarctica. They found fossils of a giant superpredator that ruled the seas millions of years ago — we’re talking bigger than a great white shark! This ...

Anacondas are among the largest living snakes in the world. They are typically four to five meters long, though they can occasionally grow up to seven meters. A University of Cambridge-led research ...

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient landscapes at heights of up to 8 meters. They had smooth trunk-like pillars and ...

Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have been like. As an organism that appeared to grow up through Earth’s crust in ...