Authorities are asking for stricter wildlife regulations in Queensland after residents were caught interacting with a massive ...

Discover the astonishing tale of the coelacanth, a "living fossil" thought to be extinct for over 65 million years! This remarkable species was rediscovered off South Africa's Chalumna River in 1938, ...

Predatory fish that evolved into the first terrestrial animals on Earth are still revealing insights into the origins of ...

The giant moa has been extinct for 900 years, but Maori researchers working Colossal Biosciences and filmmaker Peter Jackson ...

This 2011 astronaut photo shows the atolls of Rowley Shoals lined up in a near-perfect line off the coast of Australia. The ...

Titanoboa is the most massive snake to have ever lived on Earth; or was it? Scientists have recently discovered another huge ...

Fossil remains unearthed in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine reveal Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the largest snake ever discovered, ...

The mighty megalodon is the most famous extinct shark on earth – with giant jaws and a tremendous size that inspire myths and ...

An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around them as a supercontinent broke up.

Photos show the historic reintroduction, which is part of an ongoing project to bring back a species considered locally extinct for over 40 years.

A study by Dr. Martin Ebert and Dr. Martina Kölbl-Ebert examined the remains of some 4,200 Tharsis fossil specimens. They ...

Eastern Baltic cod grow to much smaller sizes than they did just 30 years ago, because overfishing altered their genes, ...