Scientists working in Colombia have discovered the largest snake on the planet, an animal that blows away previous records.

Geologists find giant mosasaur vertebra in Mississippi, a marine predator that ruled the seas 66 million years ago, ...

A giant soft-shelled egg unearthed in Antarctica is rewriting everything scientists thought they knew about ancient marine ...

Explore how ancient sloths evolved in size, from small climbers to massive ground dwellers, shaped by shifting climates and ...

A fossil-hunting father-daughter team from Vancouver Island has been recognized in the naming of a new genus of giant ...

Scientists have analyzed ancient DNA and compared more than 400 fossils from 17 natural history museums to figure out how and why extinct sloths got so big.

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Biologists said an unusual animal death deep in the Florida Everglades led to a positive surprise. Officials said they found ...

Hidden beneath the seafloor around coral reefs, giant worms wait until an unlucky ... In this case, the prehistoric tubes, each over six feet long and about an inch wide, are trace fossils likely ...

Tegus, once thought to be newcomers, actually roamed ancient Georgia during a global warm spell millions of years ago — a ...

New research shows a desert woodrat's resistance to rattlesnake venom may vary with temperature, revealing surprising ...

Screengrab from @Sdzsafaripark on Instagram A zoo in California welcomed a “wobbly newborn” deer whose species is extinct in the wild, zookeepers said. The Pere David’s deer is the first in ...