For hundreds of years, humans searched for proof that unicorns were real. Stories described magical creatures with giant ...

(CNN) — A massive, fanged creature with a head shaped like a toilet seat lurked in swamps near the edge of the world 280 million years ago, long before the first dinosaurs appeared, new research has ...

Remarkable fossils found in North Greenland have helped researchers solve a 500-million-year-old puzzle surrounding squid-like ancestors. It was previously thought ancient organisms called ...

A new study showing how a prehistoric sea cow was preyed upon by not one, but two different carnivores -- a crocodilian and a shark -- is revealing clues into both the predation tactics of ancient ...

A team of marine biologists, Earth scientists and evolutionary specialists affiliated with several institutions in the U.K., has found that prior researchers studying a fossil of an ancient sea ...

Millions of years ago, South Dakota was covered by a vast inland sea. This ancient seaway supported diverse marine life, ...

Three-hundred-million-year-old fossil creatures serve as “natural thermometers” and hold clues to Earth’s past and future climate, believes Texas A&M University professor Ethan Grossman, who’s been ...

Remarkable fossils found in North Greenland have helped researchers solve a 500-million-year-old puzzle surrounding squid-like ancestors. It was previously thought ancient organisms called ...

A new study links fossilized flying reptile tracks to animals that made them. Fossilized footprints reveal a 160-million-year-old invasion as pterosaurs came down from the trees and onto the ground.

Artist's reconstruction of Sonselasuchus cedrus in its environment in what is now Petrified Forest National Park, 215 million years ago. (Artwork by Gabriel Ugueto) (CN) — An ancient crocodile ...