An artist's rendering of the newly named Traskasuara sandrae shows the marine reptile's ability to target prey from above. Image by Robert O. Clark May 22 (UPI) --A group of Canadian fossils is ...

Yoho National Park in the Canadian Rockies holds evidence of prehistoric ocean life, including a new species. Gerry Shea via Unsplash Hundreds of millions of years ago, animals didn’t follow the same ...

Have you ever seen animals today, like certain birds or reptiles, that sort of look... prehistoric? It turns out that once ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Life on Earth began over four billion years ago, not long ...

More than 500 million years ago, something in the ocean changed. Some creatures evolved to build their own hard-shelled exterior. Others grew to sizes never seen before as the amount of oxygen on the ...

Did you know there were prehistoric crocodiles? Did you know they were really weird looking? Over the years, scientists have found evidence for a lot of strange prehistoric animals, but some of these ...