More than 3 million years ago, when our ancient ancestors embodied by the iconic Lucy were roaming the African landscape, they would have feared a big, bad crocodile with a prominent lump on its head, ...

Species named after techno-funk duo Chromeo could be key to understanding how a small group of dinosaurs survived extinction ...

The dinosaur lineage has provided us with some of the most truly terrifying animals to ever walk the planet. But we eventually learned that all birds are actually theropod dinosaurs. Looking at ...

Learn about two marsupial species discovered in New Guinea that were thought to have been extinct for 6,000 years.

Paul Sereno, a University of Chicago paleontologist, and his team were in the heart of the Sahara Desert in 2019 when they came across scattered teeth — fossils from some ...

In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...

He also noted that features such as bipedalism, toothless beaks, hollow bones, and large eye sockets are typically associated ...

Learn how fossils from Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park revealed that a Late Triassic crocodile relative may have started life on four legs before walking on two as an adult.

If you thought that crocodiles were menacing enough, be glad that you didn’t live in Arizona some 225–201 million years ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed in a cave.

Until now, scientists have only known about the animals from fossils. But they suspected the creatures might still be alive, because the remote, difficult-to-navigate region where the fossils were ...