Flinders University researchers have taken a revealing look inside the head of one of the first animals to crawl from the ...

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A newly discovered prehistoric mammal may hold clues to how life survived the dinosaur-killing extinction. The tiny species, ...

Mammals and dinosaurs coexisted on Earth until a catastrophic event 66 million years ago killed 75% of life on the planet.

New analysis of 407-million-year-old Prototaxites fossils from Scotland's Rhynie chert suggests they may belong to an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage, unlike any known fungi. The discovery ...

A remarkably preserved, mummified reptile from 289 million years ago is rewriting what we know about how animals first ...

Some octopuses that lived over 72 million years ago were as long as whales. These huge predators may have been the largest ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) - The Kraken is a huge tentacled sea monster from Norse folklore that drags ...

Some 80 million years ago, the late Cretaceous oceans were patrolled by 17-meter mosasaurs, long-necked plesiosaurs, and ...

A tiny ancient reptile just revealed the moment breathing as we know it began — and it changed life on Earth forever.

Oscar-nominated director explores a real-time ecological collapse caused by a behavioral pattern of sexual violence by male ...