While not venomous, their bite can cause serious infections and they are potentially dangerous to people and pets. This ...

A tiny 242-million-year-old fossil from Devon is shaking up scientists’ assumptions about the earliest members of the lizard lineage. Instead of the expected skull hinges and palate teeth typical of ...

Ancient anaconda fossils show that the snakes became giants soon after emerging in Miocene South America. Their size has ...

Sarasota County deputies had their hands full removing an alligator from a residential area.

Ancient Greek myths of dragons, krakens, and other legendary creatures were inspired by real animals and fossils alike.

A new study using advanced fossil imaging reveals that ancient pterosaurs may have mastered flight almost instantly when they ...

​In this article, you will learn about where it lives, how it hunts, what it eats, and why protecting this species is so important for the future.​ ...

Fossil reveals that a giant Jurassic ichthyosaur, Fossilized fin from a Temnodontosaurus, hunted using extreme stealth 183 million years ago.

For more than a hundred years, scientists believed flying reptiles called pterosaurs took to the air with birdlike brains.

Record Store Day just passed us by last weekend (it falls every year on Black Friday, plus a date in April), and if you know ...

Giant anaconda bones discovered in Venezuela date back 12.4 million years, offering rare insight into the evolution of these massive snakes.