These tracksites appear to contain the first recorded Pliocene vertebrate tracks described from southern Africa.

A new study has revealed South America’s wetlands have been home to 5.2m-long anacondas for more than 12 million ...

A newly identified fossil snake reveals clues about early advanced snake evolution. Its mixed traits highlight an ancient branch of the caenophidian family tree. More than forty years after it was ...

The Lamniformes includes some of the most familiar species of sharks, such as the great white and mako sharks as well as less ...

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora on Friday updated its regulation and monitoring of several iconic shark and ray species ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a colossal shark that lived off northern Australia about 115 million years ago, ...

A tiny 242-million-year-old fossil from Devon is shaking up scientists’ assumptions about the earliest members of the lizard lineage. Instead of the expected skull hinges and palate teeth typical of ...

Around 115 million years ago, the waters off northern Australia were home to a giant shark that totally flips what we thought ...

Ohio’s ancient sea monster, the Dunkleosteus terrelli, is revealed in new clarity by a recent study that shows just how ...

Decarbonisation is not just about changing fuels. It involves a change in our pace of living and adjusting expectations.

After examining the fossils, scientists think the huge prehistoric predator would have measured up to eight metres in length ...

The German hairy snail has become one of the most endangered molluscs in the UK, but new efforts could soon turn that ...