Limestone cliffs and cave systems hold clues to a prehistoric ocean.

An 11-year-old fossil hunter helped scientists discover remains of a giant marine reptile that lived about 202 million years ago and may have been the largest sea reptile ever.

Using cutting-edge ancient DNA analysis, scientists have found evidence of trees like oak, elm, and hazel growing on this now-submerged landscape over 16,000 years ago, thousands of years earlier than ...

Ancient DNA preserved in seabed sediments suggests Doggerland hosted temperate forests far earlier than expected.

Fossils found in Niger belong to a newly identified Spinosaurus species that had a dramatic skull crest and likely hunted ...

Scientists discovered a 13-foot python in Taiwan from a single fossil vertebra, revealing a lost apex predator.

For years, the Java Sea looked like a gap in the record. Some of the most important Homo erectus fossils ever found came from ...

Come face-to-face (or, face-to-fossil) with prehistoric ocean predators in an upcoming exhibition from London’s Natural ...

A new study has found evidence to suggest the now-submerged landmass of Doggerland in Europe was covered in a temperate ...

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A newly discovered Triassic reptile from the UK looked more like a racing greyhound than a crocodile, built for speed on land ...

Animals come in an extraordinary range of body shapes. A starfish looks nothing like an earthworm, a mouse, or a human. Yet even closely related species can appear radically different: corals, ...