The reptile was named Crocodylus lucivenator, meaning “Lucy’s hunter.” The name references Lucy, one of the most famous early ...

In biology and paleontology (the study of extinct organisms) there are a few ways to estimate the age of an animal's skeleton ...

A bite-marked dinosaur bone turns up in the American South, and the damage doesn’t match any familiar predator.

Crocodiles and alligators are among the most powerful predators on Earth. With crushing jaws, armored bodies, and remarkable ...

Scientists have identified a 3.3-million-year-old giant prehistoric monster crocodile species that likely hunted early human ...

Getting to admire the fossil of a giant extinct conch snail—a relic from the Late Miocene that lived up to 11 million years ago—is an experience you never forget. Similarly, the fossilized shell of an ...

After emailing the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum of Rowan University, Matthew Gregg learned the bone was possibly 10,000 years ...

Meet Lucy's hunter, a massive, horned crocodile that likely terrorized early human ancestors in ancient Ethiopia.

The oceans of the Cretaceous of North America teemed with life. Gigantic fish and enormous marine reptiles hunted the Western ...

More than two centuries ago, early explorers visiting the Seychelles Islands reported an unexpected sighting along the beaches and at river mouths: cr.

The Spinosaurus is a sail-backed, crocodile-snouted dinosaur that Hollywood depicted as a giant terrestrial predator capable of taking down a T. rex in Jurassic Park 3. Then they changed their mind ...

China has set an economic growth target of 4.5% to 5% for this year, a slight decrease in the face of a prolonged property slump and other headwinds and uncertainty abroad. The ...