Mosasaurs, giant marine reptiles that existed more than 66 million years ago, lived not only in the sea but also in rivers.

Almost a half-mile below Monterey Bay's surface, California scientists recorded rare footage of a seven-arm octopus eating a ...

Goannas are Australian monitor lizards that wander into schools and urban spaces, drawn by food smells and warmth. There are ...

Giant tortoises are some of the long-lived species on the planet. Here’s what biologists now understand about one of nature’s ...

The rare creature, called Haliphron atlanticus, was seen by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s biodiversity and biooptics team on Nov. 6, the institute confirmed to SFGATE via email. Prior ...

For the first time, scientists have cryopreserved and revived the larvae of a sea star species. The breakthrough, made with the giant pink star, gives hope the technique could be repeated to save the ...

The fanciful spirit woven into the DNA of Nantes quickly envelops visitors to the Atlantic coast city near the mouth of the Loire River in Western France. Upon learning that it’s the 1828 ...

The seven-armed octopus lives hundreds of meters below the surface of the sea and is one of the world's largest octopus ...

Researchers have reclassified a long-misidentified fossil from New Mexico as Ahshiselsaurus wimani, a newly recognized giant duck-billed dinosaur that offers fresh insights into hadrosaur evolution ...

Watch a pond frog effortlessly devour the northern giant hornet, the largest hornet in the world, while sustaining stings ...

Long ago, people identified fossils in their environment and explained them within their own cultural framework. This was ...

What do these creatures eat? It may well be the reason I've spent the past three years tackling this very question.