An ancient predatory dinosaur that lived 220 million years ago, Maleriraptor kuttyi, redefines carnivorous dinosaurs' origin theory.

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

On my right, Jurassic fern fronds and violet morning glories cascade over a steep cliff. I can hear the crystalline water ...

Scientists found Arctic fossils showing ocean life recovered just 3 million years after extinction, revealing how fast ecosystems rebuild.

Paleontologists have discovered fossil remains belonging to an enormous ‘toothed’ bird that lived for a period of about 60 ...

AN ANCIENT predator that lived before the dinosaurs was a “precursor” of the modern crocodile. Experts have shed light on the ...

A team of palaeontologists from the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, have discovered and described a brand-new ...

A new genus and species of pseudosuchian archosaur has been identified from the fossil remains found in southern Brazil.

More than 30,000 teeth, bones and other fossils from a 249 million-year-old community of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, bony fish and sharks have been discovered on the remote Arctic island of ...

Over the past few generations, the world has experienced countless devastating natural disasters; but few are as sudden and ...

Scientists have identified a new crocodile precursor that looked deceptively dinosaur-like and hunted with speed and ...

A newly discovered, carnivorous lizard ostensibly represents what most casual onlookers would perhaps perceive to be a ...