This extinct giant crocodile species likely preyed on human ancestors
Millions of years ago, giant dwarf crocodiles roamed a part of Africa with a taste for our human ancestors.
In a new study, researchers led...
Scientists discover Europe’s largest land predator on the Isle of Wight
Paleontologists have identified the remains of one of Europe’s largest-ever land-based hunters: a dinosaur that measured over 10m long and lived around 125 million...
This new dinosaur used fearsome claws to graze along the coast
Scientists have described the youngest therizinosaur fossil from Japan and the first in Asia to have been found in marine sediments.
Therizinosaurs were a large...
‘Demon ducks of doom’ laid huge prehistoric eggs
A unique duck-like line of megafauna known as the “demon ducks of doom” were the rightful mothers of giant prehistoric eggs in Australia, according...
Scientists find new way to check dinosaurs’ temperature
A Yale-led research team has turned up the heat on dinosaur metabolism — establishing that the earliest dinosaurs and pterosaurs had exceptionally high metabolic...
Scientists find ancient bird behind giant eggs ate by Australians around 50,000 years ago
Scientists settle debate surrounding 'Thunder bird' species, and whether its eggs were exploited by early Australian people around 50,000 years ago.
Proteins extracted from fragments...
What caused this prehistoric shark’s massive toothache
Did the world’s largest prehistoric shark need an orthodontist, or did it just have a bad lunch?
Researchers from North Carolina State University and the...
Wyoming had tropically hot temperatures 95 million years ago, shows study
A new Michigan study found the shallow sea that covered much of western North America 95 million years ago was as warm as today’s...
Scientists find new ichthyosaur, one of the largest animals ever, in the Alps
The first ichthyosaurs swam through the primordial oceans in the early Triassic period about 250 million years ago.
They had an elongated body and a...
Flying relatives of dinosaurs could control their feather colors, shows study
Palaeontologists have discovered remarkable new evidence that pterosaurs, the flying relatives of dinosaurs, were able to control the colour of their feathers using melanin...