Cryolophosaurus is one of the most fascinating dinosaur discoveries ever made, not just because of its size, but because of where it was found. This roughly 20 to 23-foot-long carnivorous dinosaur ...

A newly discovered, well-preserved Archaeopteryx fossil offers fresh insights into how early dinosaurs may have evolved ...

The longest animal on Earth isn’t what you think. It’s a drifting, gelatinous predator whose reach reshapes how we define ...

Snakes have both fascinated and scared humans for as long as we can remember. Especially frightening are the giants that ...

This elusive inhabitant of equatorial African rainforests is the biggest of all monkeys and arguably the most beautiful. The ...

We all know dinosaurs were scary. Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the largest land carnivores of all time, weighing between ...

This charming little community in east-central Illinois has transformed itself into a wonderland of supersized objects ...

Find out what fossils have revealed about ichthyosaurs, which included the biggest marine reptile that ever lived.

An 11-year-old fossil hunter helped scientists discover remains of a giant marine reptile that lived about 202 million years ...

Long before mammals dominated the land and even before the most famous dinosaurs appeared, Earth was home to a wide variety ...

The fossils were uncovered in 2021 ⁠at a site hosting infrastructure works near Davinopolis, in Brazil's northeastern ​state of Maranhao, and the research was led by Elver Mayer ​of the Federal ...

A new analysis of a large shinbone unearthed in a remote spot in northwestern New Mexico in the 1970s shows it belongs to a ...