South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ...

Learn about Dunkleosteus, an ancient apex predator that ripped apart large fish with sharp bony blades that lined its mouth.

A new study has reconstructed anacondas that lived in what’s now Venezuela 12 million years ago. The fossil vertebrae reveal ...

In fact, Dunkleosteus was unlike most fish alive in its time, too. That’s according to a new study that’s the first in nearly ...

The snakes stayed large and thrived even when cooling temperatures and shrinking habitats killed off other giant reptiles ...

Scientists call them “living fossils,” creatures whose bodies resemble ancient ancestors recorded in stone. They’ve endured ice ages, shifting continents, and mass extinctions, yet they remain ...

About 360 million years ago, the shallow sea above present-day Cleveland was home to a fearsome apex predator: Dunkleosteus terrelli. This 14-foot armored fish ruled the Late Devonian seas with ...

GRAND CANYON, AZ — Paleontologists have discovered remarkable fossils in the Grand Canyon that reveal fresh details about the emergence of complex life half a billion years ago. The newfound remains ...

The discovery of Kenyanthropus platyops in Kenya’s Lake Turkana region has forced scientists to rethink the human lineage. This flat-faced hominin, dating back 3.5 million years, suggests that early ...