Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist illustration of the extinct, Khinjaria acuta, chasing fish underwater with its jaw open. Paleontologists in Morocco have ...

Australia preserves one of the longest and most extraordinary fossil records on Earth, spanning more than 500 million years ...

Ancient oceans were filled with strange predators long before the most famous dinosaurs appeared.

Humans have a long history of misinterpreting ancient fossils. Here are 10 creatures from the dinosaur age that looked way different than we thought. Scientists and artists have been reconstructing ...

Geologists in Mississippi unearthed a large vertebra belonging to a Mosasaurus hoffmannii, a giant marine reptile from the late Cretaceous period. The discovered vertebra, potentially the largest ...

Aerial view of the Gulf of Mexico coastline in Alvarado, Veracruz state, Mexico on February 3, 2025. VICTORIA RAZO VICTORIA RAZO/AFP via Getty Images More than two decades after a skull was pulled ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Paleontology researchers in Europe have identified a new species of ancient marine reptile – often referred to as a "Jurassic sea monster" or "sea dragon" – that existed nearly 183 million years ago.

Scientists have discovered a giant new species of mosasaur, a powerful marine reptile that ruled the oceans during the age of dinosaurs. The newly identified predator was so enormous and fearsome that ...

The mix of features offers new clues to how plesiosaurs navigated prehistoric oceans. The tip of a right flipper of the new plesiosaur fossil, with two scales along the trailing edge. A new study ...

Paleontologists in Morocco have discovered the fossilized remains of a huge, never-before-seen species of marine lizard with "dagger-like" teeth. There's a new T. rex from the dinosaur age — and it ...