A newly discovered ancient crocodile cousin from a 210-million-year-old Triassic crocodile fossil reveals a powerful ...

Fossils of an ancestor to the modern crocodile were recently found in North Carolina. The 231-million-year-old fossils included a skull, spine and forelimbs of what was a nearly 3-metre-long juvenile ...

Corals are in fact three things in one: something of an animal, something of a plant, and something of a stone. They make ...

The ancient past is remembered mostly for its diversity of dinosaurs, but before dinosaurs, insects ruled the world and they ...

Over the course of its 4.5-billion-year history, the Earth has witnessed its fair share of terrible ...

These animals look all wrong. Not wrong like broken, wrong like they belong to a different Earth version. The frilled shark ...

Scientists discovered hidden phosphorus spikes in ancient limestone that may help explain two of Earth’s worst marine mass ...

Rare Triassic predator: A 210-million-year-old fossil from New Mexico reveals Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa, a land-based crocodile cousin with powerful jaws built to crush large prey. Decades-old ...

Researchers in Japan traced a hidden medieval solar storm using ancient tree rings and centuries-old sky observations. The ...

When an asteroid as big as Mount Everest struck Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs and roughly ...

On October 16, 2023, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalized a rule removing 21 species from the list of species protected under the Endangered Species Act because of extinction. In a single ...