Various video games feature extinct animals, predominantly dinosaurs, with creative interpretations mixing fact and fiction.

Researchers explored the fossil of a Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus, a 'marsh lizard' that existed between 66 and 70 million ...

Alligators date back to the Mesozoic era, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. They’re actually quite closely related to ...

If Yellowstone is dangerous now, it’s a cakewalk compared to the Pleistocene age where humans had to contend with mammoths, ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was ...

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

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the ...

The movie 'Jurassic Park', which was released in 1994, was instrumental in bringing dinosaurs back into the limelight. Since then, these prehistoric creatures have made their way i ...

By physically engineering their environments, megafauna such as dinosaurs curbed fruit seed sizes—a role that now may be ...

Dinosaurs dominated the planet for around ... looking at living relatives on either side of the family tree of prehistoric animals to infer what characteristics their ancient cousins would ...

Texas is home to a large and diverse range of animal species, however some of them are considered rare or infrequently ...

These non-dinosaur species evolved alongside their more famous counterparts and played crucial roles in the prehistoric ecosystems. Some of these creatures have similarities to animals we ...