The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and ...

Before humans ever appeared and not long after the dinosaurs went extinct, a new giant rose to the top of the food chain. It didn’t fly or roar– it slithered, and it did so with incredible ...

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

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, ...

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

The same is true for ancient ecosystems. Fish fossils are one of the most abundant types of fossils at the Prince Creek Formation, Druckenmiller said, but they are very difficult to see and ...

Indian scientists have made a major discovery– fossil remains of a giant prehistoric snake species that once lived in what's now Gujarat. Named Vasuki indicus, this ancient snake is believed to ...

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