The same goes for anybody who went for a plesiosaur: they weren't dinosaurs, and neither were their flying pals. “You may ...

For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

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Back in 1782 ... Everybody knows what a dinosaur is, right? Well, the truth is that many creatures we think of as dinosaurs aren’t, in fact, dinosaurs. It all depends on nomenclature and generic ...

The Jurassic World Rebirth trailer offers up many returning dinosaur faces as well as some truly terrifying new additions.

For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

The largest animal we know of is the blue whale, a species that still lives and thrives to this day. But ... period ichthyosaur found by researchers back in 2020. This particular skeleton was ...

he African elephant (Loxodonta africana) holds the title for the largest land animal. Adult male African elephants can stand over 13 feet (4 meters) tall at the shoulder and weigh up to 14,000 pounds ...

Paleontologists have uncovered massive dinosaur footprints in the Gobi Desert, marking the trail of what could be one of the largest hadrosaurids ever found ... A well-preserved skeleton would not ...

Photo by Solstice Hannan, via Unsplash The Tyrannosaurus Rex was a colossal theropod dinosaur, with estimates suggesting an average length of about 40 feet (12 meters) and a height of around 12 feet ...

It’s among the largest in the world. The tracks were made as dinosaurs walked across mudflats surrounded by warm tropical lagoons. As the feet of the giant animals, some up to 10 tonnes ...