Newly discovered birds from Late Cretaceous North America were hawk-sized and had powerful raptor-like feet, according to a new study. Newly discovered birds from Late Cretaceous North America were ...

Geologists working in Mississippi recently stumbled upon an incredible find: the fossil of an ancient marine apex predator. They uncovered a piece of vertebra they said likely belonged to a mosasaur, ...

A group of climbers found over 1,000 crescent-shaped marks in a cliffside, and researchers conclude they come from the Cretaceous Period – but what made them is less clear.

A study published in the the journal PLOS ONE announced the discovery of a new species of prehistoric mammal named Heleocola piceanus. According to the study conducted by a team of paleontologists ...

In a study published in Historical Biology, Dr. Mohammed Naimi and his colleagues report the discovery of the first plesiosaurian remains from Algeria. Additionally, the fossil, dated to the Late ...

An Egyptian research team has uncovered a new genus of Saurodontidae, an extinct predatory fish with reptile-like teeth from the Late Cretaceous period (65 million years ago), in Dakhla Oasis in the ...

Reconstruction of an avisaurid (e.g., A. darwini). Morphology of the tarsometatarsus suggests that these large birds engaged in raptorial behavior and could carry proportionally large prey.