Newly discovered dinosaur, which weighed more than 9 elephants, is the largest ever found in Southeast Asia
A newly named dinosaur from Thailand is generating major excitement after researchers announced that the giant plant-eater may…
540-Million-Year-Old Fossils Reveal a Huge Surprise About Early Life on Earth
Visible to the naked eye, fossilized bacteria or algae were found in an ancient seabed that emerged in…
Scientists Solve 320-Million-Year Mystery of Reptile Skin Armor
While skin bone plates are well studied in crocodylians (shown here in a gharial, in purple), their presence…
Scientists Just Exposed a 300 Million-Year-Old Fossil Mistake
A reconstruction drawing of Pohlsepia mazonensis. Credit: Dr. Thomas Clements, University of Reading The “world’s oldest octopus” was…
380-Million-Year-Old Fish Fossil Reveals Secrets of Life’s First Steps Onto Land
Life reconstruction of Devonian tetrapodomorph fish Koharalepis jarviki. Original painting by honors student and paleoartist Thomas Turner. Credit:…
Shockingly Powerful Giant Octopuses Ruled the Seas 100 Million Years Ago
Ancient octopuses may have been giant predators that ruled the seas. Fossilized jaws show they had crushing bites…
Scientists Unearth Remarkable 150-Million-Year-Old Stegosaur Skull
Illustration of Dacentrurus armatus. Credit: Adrián Blázquez / Fundación Dinópolis A newly discovered stegosaur skull from Spain is…
210-million-year-old crocodile cousins found during rise of dinosaurs
Two hundred ten million years ago, two crocodile cousins tragically died side by side, according to Yale paleontologists…
College Student Identifies Bizarre New Carnivorous Dinosaur Three Times Older Than T. rex
Artistic rendition of Ptychotherates bucculentus. Credit: Illustration by Megan Sodano for Virginia Tech. A distorted dinosaur skull, once…
60-foot Octopuses Predators 100 Million Years Ago, Fossils Shows
Size comparison of N. haggarti to its contemporaneous competitors – credit, Hokkaido University The kraken: a giant squid…
Ancient octopus ancestors may have been ‘gigantic’ predators during dinosaur age
Octopuses’ earliest relatives that lived 100 million years ago may have been “gigantic” predators that hunted alongside dinosaurs,…
Lion-sized Armadillo and Giant Tortoise Found in Texas Cave Surprise Paleontologists
Paleontologist John Moretti searching for fossils in the stream that flows through Bender’s Cave. Credit: John Moretti. Deep…