Tens of millions of years before the Ancient Egyptians erected their iconic monuments, the quarry from which they extracted their building materials was home to a crocodylian thought to be related to ...

The ancient reptile has just two living relatives, both of which are endangered ...

Until now, it was thought that the squishy, permeable skin of amphibians was unsuited for marine life because it would absorb ...

A "peculiar" new species of Jurassic squid-like animal has been unearthed in Wyoming, U.S., following the discovery of two exceptionally rare fossils dating to around 160 million years ago. The newly ...

Around 309 million years ago, long before the dinosaurs, the area around Chicago was a swampy river delta swarming with early land-dwelling animals, giant insects and strange swimming animals. What ...

Scientists have identified a new extinct crocodilian species in 45-million-year-old Egyptian fossils. Named Herugavialis ...

A 245-million-year-old marine reptile fossil preserves an astonishing amount of detail, including its stomach, liver, and intestines. The discovery reveals that Austronaga minuta was highly adapted ...

London — A previously unknown species of dinosaur — a "long-clawed predator the size of a tiger" and a cousin of the Tyrannosaurus rex — has been identified from a fossil originally found 100 years ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new species of dinosaur has been discovered from a fossil found on the Isle of Wight which has been "overlooked" for study for ...