Crocodiles belong to a group of animals known as archosaurs — a clade (or evolutionary branch) that also includes dinosaurs and pterosaurs. They share a common ancestor, which is why the confusion is ...

Fossils are remarkable for their ability to viscerally connect us with long-lost life. The bulk of a Tyrannosaurus rex skull, ...

A study found that these cosmic bodies appear to hold up remarkably well to sudden energy deposition and shock conditions, so we may be able to knock them off course and avoid disaster.

Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences, which has produced a trio of modern-day dire wolves and the woolly mouse, seeks to bring back extinct species.

A BIZARRE ancient crocodile that zipped across land 215million years ago to grab victims for dinner has been uncovered in a ...

“The ancient DNA came to our rescue to secure the specimens’ true identity,” wrote Wooller and his colleagues. It also opened ...

Featuring interviews conducted at the exhibition’s launch by Terry Flanagan and Niall Hatch, it is this week’s recommended listen from the Mooney Goes Wild archives. To listen to this special ...

There was a time when the planet was crawling with enormous dinosaurs, the next, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit, and life ...

Feb. 1 marked the closing of Disney’s Animal Kingdom’s DINOSAUR attraction, leading to the official close of DinoLand U.S.A.

New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution ...

Hell Creek is one of the few places where fossils capture life just before a mass extinction The site contains remains of dinosaurs that lived during Earth’s final moments of the Cretaceous Some layer ...