Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

Water from both volcanic rocks and deep mantle melted Earth's crust 1.6 billion years ago. This long-lasting melting formed ...

More than 230 million years ago, long before giant dinosaurs thundered across Earth, a chicken-sized creature walked near the ...

Ruby Reynolds and her father were on the beach when they discovered Ichthyotitan severnensis - the largest-ever marine ...

An 11-year-old girl and her father discovered the remains of the largest marine reptile ever known, Ichthyotitan severnensis, ...

With an incredible history and mysterious extinction, these fascinating creatures continue to puzzle scientists to this day.

The life of a 166-million-year-old reptile has been turned upside down. While Marmoretta oxoniensis was believed to have swum ...

"There has been a bewildering array of different ecological roles for crocodylomorphs, from terrestrial herbivores and ...

In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass ...

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's ...

According to members of the Argentine National Gendarmerie, a local paleontologist confirmed the fossil was that of an ...