Fossil vertebrae excavated during a mine dig in western India are the remains of one of the largest snakes that ever existed.

A new species of fossil is 444 million years-old with soft insides perfectly preserved. Research 'ultramarathon' saw palaeontologist puzzled by bizarre fossil for 25 years.

That puts Megatooth, and probably some of its ancestors, at the top step of the prehistoric food chain when it stalked the seas during the Cenozoic era, which began about 66 million years ago and ...

Duonychus's claws measure almost 30 centimeters (12 inches) long. It joins the therizinosaurs, a group of feathered, bipedal dinosaurs found in Cretaceous-era fossil deposits across Asia and North ...

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