Likely the giant snakes’ unfortunate victims. Titanoboa, surmised the scientists, had once dominated the animal kingdom.

Stories of dragons and mermaids have captured human imagination for several years. However, some of these legends may have ...

Ancient mammals that lived in the time of dinosaurs were mostly the same dark-brown colour, according to a new study ...

major is an ancient relative of today’s llamas native to South America. X. bahiense, meanwhile, had the body of a llama and the nose of a tapir. The new finding suggests that these animals were ...

Although their name suggests a connection to giant pandas, they're more closely ... acrobatic survivors give a rare glimpse into an ancient animal kingdom's branch. New Zealand's tuatara isn ...

An ancient animal bone discovered in a quarry about 20 years ago has been donated to a museum. The bone from a palaeoloxodon ...

“Exceptional preservation of reproductive organs and giant sperm in Cretaceous ostracods,” Proc ... The sperm dates back 100 million years and belongs to an ancient ostracod, a relative of ...

These ancient fish ... not verified because weighing the enormous and awkward animals is very difficult. Brown to gray in color, the giant stingrays are wide and flat in form, and they sport ...