Long before whales and sharks, enormous marine reptiles dominated the oceans with unmatched power. Scientists have ...

When researchers learned the fossils were merely 1,900 to 2,700 years old—which would be the youngest woolly mammoth fossils ...

A passerby in the harbor of Ketchikan, Alaska watched air bubbles forming on the water's surface on November 25. Then, a giant emerged from the depths.

And it was huge. The ancestor of today’s 20-foot great white shark was thought to be about 26 feet long, the authors of a ...

In the heart of Egypt’s Western Desert, scientists have uncovered more than 400 fossilized skeletons of prehistoric whales.

This discovery highlights the enormous size and predatory dominance of ancient sharks and provides scientists with a new ...

From living paint to injecting rocks, scientists have bizarre carbon capture ideas that could help us tackle the climate ...

Experts think the creatures adapted to river environments in the final million years before they became extinct.

Amongst the most enduring mythical creatures, which were present in so many ancient cultures, are the dragons. Appearing frequently in folklore and tales from China in the east to Europe in the west, ...

Researchers examining large vertebrae discovered near Darwin identified the creature as the earliest known mega-predator in the lineage of modern sharks, living some 15 million years earlier than ...