Thankfully, the young family inside the home on Chandler's Ford, Hants, were able to get out safely. The World’s Largest ...

Before humans ever appeared and not long after the dinosaurs went extinct, a new giant rose to the top of the food chain. It didn’t fly or roar– it slithered, and it did so with incredible ...

Fossils reveal that sebecids, long-extinct land predators, survived far longer in the Caribbean than previously thought, ...

A genetic study published in PLOS Biology in 2005 revealed the eagle’s closest living relatives are among Australia’s tiniest ...

A long time ago, strange predators roamed the Caribbean — not just birds and snakes, but land-dwelling crocodiles that ...

These sebecids were the last survivors of a group of ancient crocodile relatives called Notosuchia. Unlike today’s crocodiles ...

Gaete and his colleagues used fossil data to predict the home range of the prehistoric, giant kangaroo Protemnodon and its implications for the species’ extinction. (Photo by Jay Wennington via ...

Known as Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the extinct snake’s fossilised remains ... The Titanoboa, once the largest snake to ever roam the Earth, has long since vanished, leaving only fossilized ...

A non-native snake had been introduced to Guam by accident in the 1940s and nearly wiped out the Sihek. Before they became extinct in the wild, Guam biologists brought 29 Sihek to the U.S ...

Eastern brown snakes are known for their fatal bites. Picture: News.com.au Viewers were in disbelief, with one commenting, “That would have to be THE biggest brown EVER”. “I am never going t ...

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