The prehistoric creature is thought to have lived around 280-270 million years ago and was likely a "top predator" in its day ...

Mollusks and other shelled sea animals were all fair game for dinner, and the ichthyosaur’s powerful jaws and robust teeth made short work of them. “We could infer from wear patterns on its ...

Prehistoric animals roamed all over the Earth. One of the best examples is the fascinating animals found at the La Brea Tar Pits. However, there are great places to find fossils across the US and ...

Believed to have been the largest fish to ever exist, megalodons could weigh up to 120,000 pounds, according to scientists.

Indohyus looked like a mouse-deer or a large racoon, but had the ears of a whale—and its fossil was found high up in the Himalayas.

The genus, Threordatoth, earns its name from the three points of the animal’s teeth, called tricuspids. It is a combination ...

?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?? Prehistoric global warming wiped out the ichthyosaur, a toothy, dolphin-like reptile that disappeared from Earth’s oceans tens of millions of years before ...

Years later, she discovered the fossilized skeleton of another prehistoric sea creature, the plesiosaur. Dolnick describes how eagerly museums displayed the fossils Anning found, but left her name ...