The dinosaurs first appeared on Planet Earth around two hundred and forty five million years ago. That's a staggeringly long time in human terms, but geologically, the dinosaurs were effectively ...

“Life Before Dinosaurs: The Permian Monsters” opens Saturday at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. The new exhibit will take museum guests back in time to meet creatures that dominated ...

Ancient fossils reveal giant scorpions, Praearcturus gigas, exceeding a meter in length, dominated Britain over 400 million ...

A newly discovered, carnivorous lizard ostensibly represents what most casual onlookers would perhaps perceive to be a dinosaur; however, it is in fact a precursor of the modern crocodile. Named ...

Around 66 million years ago, a gigantic asteroid smashed into Earth and wreaked chaos globally. It's not too surprising that size would be linked to survival, Lacovara said. On land, "it's pretty ...