An 11-year-old girl's keen eye led to the discovery of a massive ichthyosaur jawbone fragment in Somerset, England. This find ...

By Sergio Queiroz SAO PAULO, March 13 (Reuters) - Brazilian scientists have identified a new species of giant dinosaur with ...

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.

A prehistoric viper discovered in Greece may have outweighed today’s king cobra. Fossils suggest this ancient snake was ...

A giant tyrannosaur in the late Cretaceous, 74-75 million years ago. (Chase Stone) A new analysis of a shinbone from the oldest known giant tyrannosaur in North America suggests that the 'king of ...

Deep in the heart of the Sahara, scientists have uncovered Spinosaurus mirabilis — a spectacular new predator crowned with a massive, scimitar-shaped crest that may once have blazed with color under ...

Brazilian scientists in a recent breakthrough have revealed a new species of giant dinosaur, the biggest one found in the South American country. Named Dasosaurus tocantinensis, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A life reconstruction of Prototaxites taiti growing in the 407-million-year-old Rhynie chert ecosystem. (CREDIT: M. Humpage, ...

Fossil reveals that a giant python over 4 meters long once lived in Taiwan. The discovery rewrites the island's natural history.

Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have been like. As an organism that appeared to grow up through Earth’s crust in ...

Pythons are a common sight across much of Asia, especially in the tropical jungles and wetlands of countries like Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia. But one curious exception has been the main island of ...