When scientists finally measured the most powerful bite ever recorded, the winner wasn’t T. rex. It was something far older, ...

Scientists have discovered the fossils of a new prehistoric species in Morocco — a bizarre-looking marine lizard considerably larger than a great white shark, which, they say, dominated the seas while ...

Starting January 31, the Museum of Idaho invites visitors to step far deeper into prehistory with the opening of Life Before ...

The creature, named K. atrox, was an extinct ancestor of the modern crocodile. A new study has identified a massive creature that hunted and ate dinosaurs 70 million years ago. It’s called ...

The state Legislature inked it last week. A little creature from the Triassic period, whose bones were discovered in a block of sandstone more than a century ago, is the “official dinosaur of the ...

Researchers have filled in a gaping hole in North America's fossil record—by analyzing fossilized remains from the Eutaw Formation of Mississippi, they identified large-bodied specimens of what was ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive, fanged creature with a head shaped like a toilet seat lurked in swamps near the edge of the world 280 million years ago ...

Dinosaurs ruled the planet between 230 to 66 million years ago, although many other life forms had evolved well before their ...

Long before dinosaurs dominated the planet, Earth was already home to creatures that appear almost unreal by modern standards ...

A dinosaur fossil footprint found about 50 years ago is from a plant-eating dinosaur – not a huge meat-eating dinosaur as previously thought, according to a new study. The footprint, which dates back ...