A fossil found over two decades ago on England’s Jurassic Coast has proved to be one of the most significant discoveries of ...

The marine reptile would have been about three metres long and would have eaten fish and squid, scientists say ...

A skeleton found on Britain's Jurassic Coast has been identified as a new species of ichthyosaur, a type of prehistoric ...

Smithsonian's Sea Monsters Unearthed traveling exhibition begins national tour, sharing a missing chapter in Earth's history.

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

Unveiling the 289-million-year-old stalagmite from Oklahoma, a remarkable find that challenges our understanding of ancient ...

Perhaps you have a young dino-obsessed kid in your life, or maybe you are still that kid at heart enthralled by the ...

This pair of duck hunters were down in Leesburg, Florida, and found themselves sharing their ducks with a monstrous gator. At about 13 feet long, this prehistoric behemoth was snagging their downed ...

A new ichthyosaur species, Xiphodracon goldencapensis, or 'sword dragon,' has been unearthed on the UK's Jurassic Coast. This ...

At Rome’s Casal Lumbroso site, humans 400,000 years ago turned a dead elephant into food and tools—proof of astonishing ...

“We opted for Xiphodracon because of the long, sword-like snout (xipho from Greek xiphos for sword) and dracon (Greek and ...