By studying rare fossils of jaws and other skull parts of a long-extinct Caribbean monkey, a team of researchers says it has uncovered new evidence documenting the anatomy and ecology of an extinct ...

Some 40 million years before the dinosaurs dominated Earth, a different sort of apex predator roamed the Gondwana supercontinent during the late Palaeozoic ice age: a massive, eight foot-long ...

Scientists recently unearthed a series of Komodo dragon fossils in eastern Australia dating ... while still remaining safe (they are known predators of people, after all). Sure, the tuatara might look ...

Using shells from the recent fossil record, researchers have determine that interactions between predator and prey in the northern Adriatic Sea have significantly declined due to human activity.

Fossils at Hammerschmiede reveal a bear species related to the panda, but with a varied diet. The site uncovered 28 predator ...

They were the dominant species of their time, much like antelopes dominate the Serengeti today. As such, they have left a rich fossil record, including conspicuous and often very large skulls and ...

Fossils from a huge ... period (100.5 million to 66 million years ago), many iconic marine predators such as the dolphin-like ichthyosaurs and long-necked plesiosaurs succumbed to a changing ...

It's unclear exactly what species the fossils belong to, but officials say that either way, a discovery like this one helps scientists better understand the history of this land. "This is truly ...

For the average Ohioan, gerrymandering can sound more like a rare amphibian than a political process that influences everything from taxes and school policy to abortion access and gun control.

Conservation groups in Quebec are trying to save a rare, endangered salamander before it's too late. But the first step is finding the reclusive amphibian. "It's hours and hours of flipping rocks and ...

Mexican and German researchers have found the fossil of a giant squid that lived ... The animal had 10 tentacles and was part of a group of predator cephalopod molluscs that lived in the area.