A KILLER fish that lived hundreds of millions of years ago was capable of breathing air. Fossils belonging to the ancient fanged sea-beast were found in Australia – in one of the oldest rivers in the ...
More than three million years ago, in the area that is now Ethiopia, our early human ancestors lived in a landscape that ...
Parasites have been discovered in a 200 million-year-old fossilized poo. Researchers have found that one of the earliest predators on the planet was infested with roundworm, also known as nematodes, ...
EXPERTS have speculated that one ancient sea creature was even more powerful than the mighty megalodon. Megalodons are an extinct species of mackerel shark that lived approximately 23million to ...
You might have to forget what you think you know about the Megalodon. Megalodon are ancient fish, thought to be the largest to ever exist. According to a new study, the ancient predator which became ...
Whales today are usually considered to be gentle creatures, but an ancient whale that swam the seas of what is now Peru 36 million years ago was anything but gentle. The terrifying animal, which ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive, fanged creature with a head shaped like a toilet seat lurked in swamps near the edge of the world 280 million years ago ...
In a study published in The Anatomical Record, researchers have identified a new species of large-bodied gorgonopsian from the middle Permian. The discovery pushed back the known origins of when these ...
Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. With appendages growing out of its head ...