We all know dinosaurs were scary. Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the largest land carnivores of all time, weighing between 11,000 and 15,500 pounds, the equivalent of almost three adult African ...

An ancient species has had experts scratching their heads about its unusual jaw shape. The salamander-like creature had a ...

A baby dinosaur fossil hidden inside solid rock for nearly 100 million years is now rewriting South Korea’s fossil record.

Zhu Min introduces the discovery of the oldest known bony fish fossil at a conference on research results on tracing the early evolutionary history of "from fish to humans". Sun Zifa/China News ...

Fossils found in Niger belong to a newly identified Spinosaurus species that had a dramatic skull crest and likely hunted ...

Scientists have long thought that mechanical considerations drove the animals to passively gnaw on hard materials, says study ...

These days, all fish have teeth. The shapes of their teeth vary according to diet, ranging from the little pegs of goldfish ...

For a shark that vanishes almost as quickly as it appears, the great white has left behind a surprisingly messy family ...

Matthew Gregg was walking his German shorthaired pointer, Charlie Brown, when the dog discovered a fossil among the beach debris.

An 85-million-year-old crocodile fossil is redrawing the prehistoric map of Europe and ruling out a late connection with Africa.

A new species, Tanyka amnicola, had one of the strangest jaws ever found. Discover how the living fossil changes what we know ...