A new species of sea monster has been described from 80 million-year-old fossils, and it’s giving Tyrannosaurus rex a run for ...

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 ...

Centuries before modern science could more accurately explain the natural world, brief animal sightings often inspired ...

In May 1925, a strange decaying corpse washed ashore on Moore’s Beach, now known as Natural Bridges State Beach, in Santa Cruz. Locals who swarmed out to investigate the specimen described elephantine ...