Some of the wildest legends may actually be rooted in reality. Ancient people didn’t have science textbooks, just bones in ...

Marshall says the new genus has officially been named “Traskasaura sandrae,” and that it was a “39-foot-long, long-necked ...

In November, tens of thousands of male olive ridley sea turtles start congregating just 5km nearshore in Odisha, India. They ...

A prehistoric sea monster never-before-known to man was hunting prey in North America 85 million years ago, fossils found ...

A group of Canadian fossils is identified as a new genus of the elasmosaurus "sea monster" that existed tens of millions of ...

When scientists crawled into Mammoth Cave —a.k.a. the largest known cave system on the planet— they weren’t expecting company ...

In the Devonian period, around 400 million years ago, four-legged fish crawled out of the sea to become the ancestors of all vertebrate life on land—including humans. Once on land, animals ...

Beneath the muddy creek beds of Mississippi, scientists recently discovered the fossil of a terrifying prehistoric monster.

The now-extinct species of dugong, a manatee-like marine mammal, was swimming in the sea about 15 million years ago when it was preyed upon by two animals: a crocodile and a tiger shark.

All of Earth’s creatures have the potential to slowly fossilize, making them discoverable after millions of years to be studied and entered into the annals of science. That includes those that ...

the researchers identified a group of fossils found near British Columbia’s Vancouver Island that belong to a new genus of a type of sea creature called plesiosaurs. The genus is a biological ...