A skull found 25 years ago in northern Mexico has led to the definition of a new species of marine reptile, scientists ...

Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new species of Spinosaurus — the meat-eating dinosaur that may have rivaled T. rex in size. The new species, called Spinosaurus mirabilis, lived 95 to ...

An 11-year-old fossil hunter helped scientists discover remains of a giant marine reptile that lived about 202 million years ago and may have been the largest sea reptile ever.

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday. The treasure trove of ...

The aquatic reptile, a superpredator of the mosasaur family, inhabited the seas of what is now the northeast of the country ...

These creatures have watched the world go through bouts of radical change for 500 million years. They saw the rise and fall of the dinosaurs, the first hesitant steps of our ancestors onto dry land, ...

Chinese scientists have recently discovered fossils of a new species of ancient ray-finned fish that lived about 244 million ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A limestone quarry in Hunan province, China, has yielded more than 150 species dating back approximately 512 million years — 91 of ...

A paper published in Science describes the discovery of Spinosaurus mirabilis, a new spinosaurid species found in Niger. A 20-person team led by Paul Sereno, Ph.D., Professor of Organismal Biology and ...