The elasmosaurids were a genus of dinosaurs that lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now the United States.

A fossil from British Columbia, originally discovered in the 80s, has finally been identified as a new species named ...

A new study highlights the potential of amber fossils to capture evidence of powerful, prehistoric ocean waves ...

Geologists find giant mosasaur vertebra in Mississippi, a marine predator that ruled the seas 66 million years ago, ...

T. rex evolved in North America from Asian ancestors. Climate shifts and extinction events helped tyrannosaurids and ...

Beneath the muddy creek beds of Mississippi, scientists recently discovered the fossil of a terrifying prehistoric monster.

The 36 well-preserved cervical vertebrae and 50 neck bones indicate that Traskasaura had a very long neck. While not much is ...

Scientists found 80 dinosaur footprints in China that show a meat-eating dinosaur walking, then speeding up for a bit and ...

A group of Canadian fossils is identified as a new genus of the elasmosaurus "sea monster" that existed tens of millions of ...

Geologists working in Mississippi recently stumbled upon an incredible find: the fossil of an ancient marine apex predator.

A reconstruction of a cool-temperate rainforest and river landscape during the early Cretaceous period in what is now southern Australian. | Credit: Artwork by Robert Nicholls. Published in Korasidis ...

This one-of-a-kind predatory strategy has never been seen in other insects. Scientists think it was used to trap flies into ...