A previously unknown shark once swam around the shores of the U.K. more than 70 million years ago. The new species, named ...

Mosasaurs were some of the most fearsome apex predators to ever stalk the Cretaceous era’s oceans. And according to ...

Why do some ancient animals become fossils while others disappear without a trace? A new study from the University of ...

Before humans ever appeared and not long after the dinosaurs went extinct, a new giant rose to the top of the food chain. It ...

A long time ago, strange predators roamed the Caribbean — not just birds and snakes, but land-dwelling crocodiles that ...

Fossils reveal that sebecids, long-extinct land predators, survived far longer in the Caribbean than previously thought, ...

In the ancient landscapes of what is now northeastern Brazil, 113 million years ago, an unusual ant with bizarre ...

Long thought extinct, sebecid fossils found in the Dominican Republic are rewriting what we know about ancient predators in ...

These sebecids were the last survivors of a group of ancient crocodile relatives called Notosuchia. Unlike today’s crocodiles ...