TUALATIN, Ore. (AP) — Hoisting his kayak paddle in the air triumphantly, Gary Kristensen celebrated as he crossed the finish line, victorious in his giant, floating pumpkin.

Across the world, humans have told stories of creatures so strange and powerful they blur the line between myth and reality.

A remarkable 220-meter dinosaur trackway, one of the world's longest, has been unearthed in Oxfordshire, revealing the ...

Sony Interactive Entertainment and Giant Squid have both filed a trademark for Sword of the Sea in Europe on October 7 with the European Union Intellectual Property Office. The atmospheric adventure ...

Researchers often rely on fossil teeth for clues about what extinct animals ate. Giant ground sloths’ teeth have been tricky to analyze, though – until now.

Indigenous Australians may have been early "paleontologists," not big-game hunters, according to a new analysis ...

About 250 million years ago, as life was recovering from Earth’s greatest mass extinction, some reptiles began to change ...

By far the largest ever found of its kind, the spiny fossil predator "would have made enough scampi to feed an army," one ...

Jurassic dinosaurs milled about ancient Scottish lagoons, leaving up to 131 footprints at a newly discovered stomping ground on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, according to a new study. Jurassic ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still home to enigmatic megafauna—large land animals such as giant marsupial ...

A trove of specimens from New Mexico may help settle a long-running argument about the diversity of dinosaurs before their ...

What's the rarest ocean animal? Discover the rare and endangered ocean animals along with those that are rare because they're ...