Approximately 250 million years ago, during the Permian-Triassic extinction event, which is also popularly known as the period of "The Great Dying", the Earth experienced its most catastrophic ...

Learn how chemical clues reveal a mosasaur was hunting in freshwater rivers as the Cretaceous seaway receded.

Scientists have uncovered a remarkable fossil from Canada's Burgess Shale, a discovery that reshapes how the evolution of arthropods is understood. This new find, named Mosura fentoni, lived roughly ...

Researchers have discovered the oldest known example of a predator-prey “arms race,” based on their study of ancient fossils. This ancient predator-prey relationship took place 517 million years ago ...

A groundbreaking new discovery has sent shockwaves through the world of paleontology. Researchers in Brazil have unearthed ...

Paleontologists recently discovered a 506-million-year-old "moth-like" predator that lurked in prehistoric Canada. In a press release from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), officials identified the ...

Scientists recently uncovered a new dinosaur — and its ancient leftovers – in a tourist hot spot in Argentina. The dinosaur, which measured 23 feet long, is called Joaquinraptor casali. Its discovery ...

Fossil studies of the extinct predator Dissacus praenuntius offer clues as to how ancient animals responded to environmental changes. The ancient omnivore was about the size of a jackal or a coyote.

A leopard-sized “fearsome” predator that hunted early elephants 30 million years ago has been identified following the discovery of a near-complete skull. The find in the Egyptian desert has led ...

A past predator of the seas may have had a secret weapon: noise-cancelling flippers that helped it sneak up on prey. The team then performed computer analyses to simulate how the flipper might have ...