Paleontologist Paul Sereno and an international team have named a new species of sail-backed predator, Spinosaurus mirabilis, ...

A new snake’s unique head anatomy suggests early snakes were even more diverse than thought. This one was a rare burrower.

Billions of birds share the planet with us. With their flamboyant plumage and joyous dawn serenades, many of them are impossible to miss. But how did they get here, how did they break the bounds of ...

Discover the 25 strangest things found in an X-ray, from grenades to swallowed dentures. Prepare to be amazed by these ...

For more than 25 years, Liopleurodon has been one of the world's most recognizable prehistoric marine predators. Immortalized ...

Read a National Geographic magazine article about pterosaurs, the largest animals that ever flew, and get information, facts, ...

Paleontologists have unearthed a remarkably preserved fossil snake in Brazil that is reshaping ideas about how the earliest ...