We all know dinosaurs were scary. Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the largest land carnivores of all time, weighing between 11,000 and 15,500 pounds, the equivalent of almost three adult African ...

One of the hottest classes of drugs in the world owes part of its origin story to a weird desert lizard with a venomous bite ...

In northern Spain, scientists have uncovered 152-million-year-old lizard footprints, offering new insights into prehistoric ...

The specimen is a single vertebra recovered from fossil-bearing sediments near Tainan, in southwestern Taiwan. It came from ...

At a glance, alligators and crocodiles look nearly identical. Both are massive reptiles with armored skin, powerful jaws and a prehistoric lineage that ...

Long before mammals dominated the land and even before the most famous dinosaurs appeared, Earth was home to a wide variety ...

Ruby Reynolds unearthed the largest-known marine reptile fossil on England’s coast, unveiling the 82-foot Ichthyotitan ...

Discover the untold stories of Earth's mass extinctions through NBC's new series Surviving Earth, premiering June 4. Get a ...

Strolling a familiar beach and stumbling upon a relic from the age of dinosaurs sounds like pure fantasy, yet that is exactly what happened on England’s west coast. A stretch of shoreline below ...

The UK west Dorset coast is well known for its fossils. The so-called ‘Jurassic Coast’ has yielded numerous specimens that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Monitor lizards are often drawn to the water, where they search for food, cool off or find shelter. In places like Bangkok, these ...

Alligators are among the most fascinating and mysterious reptiles on Earth, a perfect combination of ancient lineage and surprisingly complex behaviors. These predators often seem prehistoric, thanks ...