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 ...

The evolutionary adaptations that allowed ancient pterosaurs to grow to enormous sizes have been pinpointed for the first ...

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 ...

These findings shed light on the feeding habits of this 20-foot-long marine predator. These fossils, preserved from ... whose teeth were sharp and pointy, like a dagger. What makes this discovery ...

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 ...

Scientists recently announced the discovery of several fossils from a massive ... They were apex predators of the seas, closely related to modern-day lizards. With streamlined bodies, powerful tails, ...