A newly discovered fossilized giant trapdoor spider in New South Wales is captivating both scientists and the public. This ...

A sebecid tooth and two vertebraes found in the Dominican Republic show that the crocodile species persisted in the Caribbean ...

Fossils reveal that sebecids, long-extinct land predators, survived far longer in the Caribbean than previously thought, ...

These fish, which comprise the family Labridae, experienced an explosion of evolutionary innovation and accelerated species diversification during the early Miocene, about 20 million years ago.

Researchers have unearthed fossils of massive freshwater crayfish that once scuttled through the lakes of southern New ...

These sebecids were the last survivors of a group of ancient crocodile relatives called Notosuchia. Unlike today’s crocodiles ...

Now, a new species has been discovered — but it’s 16 million years old. A piece of amber from the early Miocene was discovered in the northern mines of the Santiago Providence of the Dominican ...

While the genus includes a total of nine living species today, the unexpected fossil ... during significant ecological changes of the Miocene. "The presence of Basiceros in Dominican amber ...