WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It looked like a cross between a crocodile and a salamander - and definitely was not an animal to be messed with. Long before the dinosaurs or even the advent of the earliest ...

History is full of terrifying beasts that would make even the most ferocious living predators look like cuddly toys. There's the largest prehistoric arthropod, as well as the the giant eagle that ...

Very large things often have small beginnings. That certainly was true for brontotheres, the enormous, rhino-like herbivorous mammals that lumbered across North America and Asia during the Eocene ...

An artist's rendering of the newly named Traskasuara sandrae shows the marine reptile's ability to target prey from above. Image by Robert O. Clark May 22 (UPI) --A group of Canadian fossils is ...

This thing surprised me when I zoomed in on it with my camera. It looked like a strange prehistoric animal walking down an ice covered hillside with an iceberg in the distance. In reality this is a ...

David Burnham presents a row of T. rex teeth on April 18, 2025, at the Paleontology Lab at Dyche Hall, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd. For David Burnham, paleontology isn’t just a science — it’s storytelling, and ...

Ever wonder how saber-toothed cats and other extinct creatures behaved? Well, a team of scientists unearthed ancient footprints that offer insight into how various prehistoric animals lived as far ...