Paleontologists have dubbed the long-necked, plant-eating creature "Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis." It's the 14th named dinosaur ...

Some animals are so strange, brightly colored, outsized or ancient-looking that they seem hardly connected to the modern ...

These animals look all wrong. Not wrong like broken, wrong like they belong to a different Earth version. The frilled shark ...

For years, a slab of sandstone sat cemented into a retaining wall in a suburban Sydney garden, unremarkable to anyone walking ...

Shockingly, a fossil dating back 240 million years has finally been formally identified after spending decades hidden inside ...

A forgotten fossil hidden inside a garden wall has turned out to be one of Australia’s most remarkable prehistoric discoveries. Scientists have now identified the 240-million-year-old amphibian, ...

At the time of the dinosaurs, the oceans were teeming with life. Below the waves, giant marine reptiles, such as the fearsome 4m (13ft) long mosasaurs, were the undisputed apex predators. In artistic ...

The giant kraken, a mythical marine beast, may not be entirely fiction. New evidence suggests that octopuses up to 62 feet long likely roamed the waters of ancient Earth, ripping and devouring prey in ...

Octopuses’ earliest relatives that lived 100 million years ago may have been "gigantic" predators that hunted alongside dinosaurs, according to new research. Although scientists previously believed ...

The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs 100 million years ago may have been the octopus. New analyses of fossilized jaws reveal that massive, kraken-like octopuses once ...