This week in the journal Nature Communications, scientists report a way to use fossilized shark teeth to figure out where ...
Ancient anaconda fossils show that the snakes became giants soon after emerging in Miocene South America. Their size has stayed stable for over 12 million years, even though other huge reptiles went ...
Discover how the Megalodon might have evolved if it had never gone extinct. Legal analysts react to Trump’s plan to terminate ...
Great white sharks have long stood in our collective imagination as the ultimate predator in our oceans. These sizable sharks ...
A trio of researchers with the Alexander Center for Applied Population Biology, Lincoln Park Zoo, has discovered some of the traits that many species of plants and animals facing extinction have in ...
Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities. Alamosaurus was one of the last dinosaurs from ...
VIRGINIA BEACH — One of the most fearsome predators to rule the seas millions of years ago may have left something behind at Virginia Beach’s North End. Terry Siviter and his 5-year-old grandson, ...