Crocodiles are among the most powerful predators on Earth, with a lineage that stretches back more than 200 million years. Built for ambush, armored with thick scales, and equipped with one of the ...

T.rex was perhaps the deadliest dinosaur that ever lived. However, that doesn’t mean it didn’t face threats from other ...

Arguably one of the most curious ancient human relatives is Homo floresiensis, a 3-foot-tall species that lived on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A clue preserved in ancient rocks suggests that mountains rising from the ocean floor may have helped create ...

A bizarre crocodile relative from the age of dinosaurs is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about ancient reptiles. This poodle-sized creature, called Sonselasuchus cedrus, appears to have ...

The first four-legged vertebrates did not grow up like tadpoles after all. That idea has shaped the story of life on land for decades. Early tetrapods, the ancient animals that gave rise to mammals, ...

Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges. Hidden inside rocks over 541 million years old are rare molecular “fingerprints ...

Analysis of Clovis stone points found among mammoth bones shows no evidence that the mammoth's were killed by hunters.

Plague has terrorized humans for millennia: In the 1300s the Black Death sparked the deadliest pandemic in human history, killing as many as half of all the people in Europe. Long before that, around ...

When most people imagine paleontologists at work, they likely envision researchers investigating giant dinosaur fossils or a long-frozen woolly mammoth. Sometimes, however, the best snapshots of ...

A recent study by Ruibao Li and Jennah Dharamshi published in Nature may help us understand the beginnings of animal evolution billions of years ago. These findings are the result of a collaboration ...