African dinosaur duo ate like sharks
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Fossils from two newly discovered  meat-eating dinosaurs that lived in the Sahara Desert 110  million years ago paint a fearsome picture of life in Africa's  Cretaceous period, which appears to have been teeming with  unusual carnivores.
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Two previously unknown types of meat-eating dinosaur have been identified from Sahara desert fossils.
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The remains of two dinosaurs believed to be millions of years old were discovered in southern Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
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The extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago can be traced to a collision between two monster rocks in the asteroid belt nearly 100 million years earlier, scientists report on Wednesday.
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This week: African rebels eat gorillas, spiders' glow seen as sexy, humans killed off Ice Age Aussie animals, "black" diamonds hail from space, and more.
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Protorosaurs are a group of carnivorous (meat-eating) reptiles who lived in the Triassic Period about 206-248 million years ago. Science magazine, the leading international weekly journal of science, published
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A newly discovered fossil might be the remains of one of the first stealth hunters, a swimming dinosaur that could use its long neck to sneak up on prey and strike without warning.
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The remains of an enormous, flesh-eating dinosaur that roamed the Earth 70m years ago have been discovered in a remote region of Inner Mongolia.
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Shark! Sharks attacked 62 people without provocation last year, killing four of them, scientists at the University of Florida said yesterday.
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Scientists have uncovered the fossil skeleton of a robust bird-like dinosaur that lived 70 million years ago.
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An astonishing collection of fossil animals from southern Australia is reported by scientists.
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Scientists have found a fossil of a  "Monster" fish-like reptile in a 150 million-year-old Jurassic  graveyard on an Arctic island off Norway.
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Fossilized dinosaurs often have wide-open mouths, heads thrown back and tails that curve toward the head. Paleontologists have long assumed the dinosaurs died in water and the currents drifted the bones into that position, or that rigor mortis or drying muscles, tendons and ligaments contorted the limbs.  &quot;I&#39;m reading this in the literature and thinking, &#39;This doesn&#39;t make any sense to me as a veterinarian,&#39;&quot; said Cynthia Marshall Faux, a veterinarian-turned-paleontologist at the Museum of the Rockies. ...
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CLEVELAND - A new dinosaur species was a plant-eater with yard-long horns over its eyebrows, suggesting an evolutionary middle step between older dinosaurs with even larger horns and the small-horned creatures that followed, experts said.
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Two fossil finds in China suggest that prehistoric mammals were bigger and badder than previously thought. At least one even ate dinosaurs for dinner.
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Analysis of ancient sediment taken from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean support the view that the dinosaurs' extinction was caused by a single rogue meteor striking Earth, and not by multiple space rock impacts, a new study finds.
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Dramatic story of fighting off shark in Bondi waters revealed to be a fishy tale