Sharks have been losing teeth for 400 million years. Here’s a guide to uncovering some of these plentiful fossils across the ...

The remnants of a mosasaur show a sea predator that was ill equipped for slashing bites, and likely preferred to swallow its ...

Rare fossils of the mosasaur Globidens alabamaensis — a 20 foot predator with strange, mushroom-shaped teeth — unearthed in ...

the hammerhead and other “pelagic” sharks owe their status as the ocean’s top predators to a sustained bout of global warming 93 million years ago, a study has found. At that point, during the ...

In the past 500 million years on Earth, there have been five mass extinctions. Here are a few incredible species that managed ...

The fossils were discovered in the Western Mississippi Embayment, a basin extending from southern Illinois to northern ...

Big animals are exciting. The largest animal on Earth today is the blue whale which can reach 98 feet long – enormous (and ...

The coelacanth is an oddly-named lobe-fish that was thought to be extinct for more than 60 million years until it was ...

The mighty, huge, and scary-looking dinosaurs once walked this Earth, but a cataclysmic event that occurred some 66 million years ago wiped them out. This event triggered a series of changes in ...