Scientists Discover 43-Foot Sea Reptile Twice the Size of a Great White Shark
The holotype for the newly described Tylosaurus rex is a giant specimen displayed at the Perot Museum of…
Scientists Discover Terrifying Giant Crocodile That Hunted Human Ancestors
Artistic Illustration of Lucy’s Hunter Crocodile. Credit: Tyler Stone, University of Iowa. A newly named crocodile species from…
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…
Newly discovered hamster-sized mammal lived alongside dinosaurs
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Researchers have…
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 the…
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…