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Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Throughout ancient history, giant animal versions of some of your ...

Paleontologists have identified a "remarkable" new species of crocodilian that lived around 135 million years ago during the Mesozoic Era, or the Age of the Dinosaurs—and Newsweek spoke to the lead ...

Germany's waters once saw a recently discovered new reptile species known as the Enalioetes schroederi, best characterized as a crocodile which has dolphin-like qualities which lived around 135 ...

At a quarry in China, researchers uncovered a prehistoric transitional species from millions of years ago. MiningWatch Portugal via Unsplash During the late Cretaceous period, between 100 and 66 ...

Around 66 million years ago, springtime in the Northern Hemisphere brought disaster and mass death to Earth in the form of a giant asteroid impact that triggered a global extinction. After an asteroid ...

Long before whales and sharks, enormous marine reptiles dominated the oceans with unmatched power. Scientists have reconstructed a 130-million-year-old marine ecosystem from Colombia and found ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. If you’ve ever been bitten by a mosquito, it was a female insect ...