Snakes first appeared during the age of dinosaurs, but fossils of many early species are so fragmentary that scientists have ...

The show’s VFX supervisor (and head dragon honcho) spills all his secrets.

On West Africa’s stunningly diverse Bioko Island, rare primates are being slaughtered to feed a growing bush-meat trade. When ...

These clues from the Galápagos led Darwin (immediately? long afterward? here the mythic story is vague) to conclude that ...

For more than 25 years, Liopleurodon has been one of the world's most recognizable prehistoric marine predators. Immortalized ...

A newly identified fossil ape from northern Egypt is reshaping ideas about where the ancestors of modern apes first emerged.

Volunteers armed with chisels, brushes and protective goggles chip away at rock encasing the bones of a massive prehistoric amphibian in a glass-walled ...

Jurassic World Rebirth continues along the path laid out by the prior Jurassic World trilogy and builds to a hybrid dinosaur as its primary villain, but which killer creation would win in a fight: the ...

The Old Irish Goat isn’t just part of folklore — it’s genetically linked to goats that lived in Ireland 3,000 years ago. Scientists analyzed ancient remains and discovered that today’s rare breed ...

Ancient bones and DNA reveal that dog diversity and their close relationship with migrating humans developed thousands of ...

Liopleurodon ferox is a short-necked marine reptile that patrolled the seas of what is now England and France some 163 ...