(CNN) — As Texas baked in record-breaking heat this summer and a growing drought pushed water levels down, a group of volunteers uncovered something sort of magnificent: new giant dinosaur tracks that ...

WASHINGTON – Picture the fearsome creatures of “Jurassic Park” crossed with the shark from “Jaws.” Then super-size to the biggest predator ever to roam Earth. Now add a crocodile snout as big as a ...

Palaeontologists are finding more dinosaur remains than ever before, and with new technology they can now peer inside these creatures' brains, understand their sensory anatomy and reconstruct whole ...

Fossil discoveries reveal massive prehistoric predators that once dominated Earth’s oceans. Although often called underwater ...

Lumbering, long-necked dinosaurs frequented the same watering hole as their predators some 167 million years ago, a scientific study of dinosaur footprints found. The footprints at what is now the ...

With an incredible sail and heavy bones that might have acted as ballast, Spinosaurus seems primed for snatching fish. The creature has long captivated the public, from its early mysteries to the rece ...

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