While dinosaurs are the best-known ancient animals, some of the scariest prehistoric creatures were not dinosaurs. Instead, ...

The biggest, scariest predator of the ancient Cambrian oceans just got a lot more menacing: Researchers have found a pair of fossilized eyes that show the beast had excellent vision. "The animal ...

There are plenty of terrifying animals alive today — grizzly bears, condors, boa constrictors, great white sharks and giant hornets, to name just a handful. But there are also some very scary ...

but they’re actually the last of an ancient group that belongs in neither category. And instead of blood, they eat bits of creatures and junk that sinks into the deep sea. We know less about ...

Not all prehistoric creatures were monsters, but this one was. An ancient fossil long-kept in a Canadian museum turned out to be a previously undiscovered primordia l monster worm with scary ...

Scary Ancient 'Spiders' Revealed In 3D Models, With New Imaging Technique. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 30, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2009 / 08 / 090804211128.htm ...

On Thursday, University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno and his colleague at McGill University in Montreal, Hans Larsson, unveiled fossils of five ancient ... adept land animals that could ...

Historians have long believed that ancient humans fought animals in arena battles, but no definitive evidence has been found — until now. An archeological breakthrough two decades in the making has ...

The ancient footprints from Australia were found on a slab of sandstone recovered near Melbourne and show reptile-like feet with long toes and hooked claws. Scientists estimate the animal was ...

The biggest, scariest predator of the ancient Cambrian oceans just got a lot more menacing: Researchers have found a pair of fossilized eyes that show the beast had excellent vision. "The animal ...