The dusty plains of Western Australia’s Kimberley region are a long way from the ...

From horseshoe crabs to crocodiles, some of these creatures have looked about the same for hundreds of millions of years.

Megalodon usually gets all the attention when it comes to sea monsters, but ancient oceans were full of predators just as strange and scary. Fossils tell us that long before modern sharks ruled the ...

New fossil discoveries are forcing scientists to redraw the boundaries of ancient oceans, suggesting that some of the most formidable marine predators did not always stay at sea. From gigantic ...

Yahoo Racing is powered by Motorsport Network, providing expert reporting, analysis, and insider access across the world’s top racing series. Bizarre shrimp-like monsters that were the world's largest ...

The Mesozoic ocean may have been one of the most dangerous places in Earth’s history, filled with predators that still feel unreal today. Fossils reveal massive jaws, strange body shapes, and hunting ...

Geologists working in Mississippi recently stumbled upon an incredible find: the fossil of an ancient marine apex predator. They uncovered a piece of vertebra they said likely belonged to a mosasaur, ...

Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay bordering a vast ...

With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since paleontologists uncovered the first specimen more than two centuries ago. Their ...

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