The alligator gar is a massive, ancient fish found in U.S. rivers and lakes. With its armor-like scales and gator-like snout, it looks terrifying—but it plays a vital role in freshwater ecosystems.

In the flicker of those ancient fires — built not for feasting, but for vigilance and smoking meat — Homo erectus paved the ...

A cast of a Deinosuchus, which lived 83.5 million years ago in the United States and was similar to modern alligators. They ...

Miocene marine vertebrate trophic ecology reveals megatooth sharks as opportunistic supercarnivores. Earth and Planetary ...

In reality, the fearsome 80-foot-long megalodon was. Likely not a picky eater. New research suggests that this prehistoric ...

Otodus megalodon was the largest predatory fish in Earth's history: Measuring up to 24 meters, it was longer than a truck with a trailer and weighed ...

LARSEN -- Roy Mathison has never speared a lake sturgeon nor stared into those coffin-sized holes on Lake Winnebago, hoping one of these prehistoric fish swims by ... even though he builds two models.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, fish had sensory features on their exoskeletons that contained dentine, the material that makes our teeth sensitive today ...

Paleontologists have long suspected that our teeth evolved from bumpy structures called odontodes on the exoskeletons of prehistoric fish—but they didn’t understand exactly what these bumps ...

One of the major attractions will be a sound-and-light show on the “origin of life, prehistoric life, and the evolution of human beings”. A renovated dinosaur model at RSC’s Prehistoric Life ...

A China-Australia joint research team has reported fossils of a prehistoric fish species, only the second known of the mysterious early vertebrate genus Palaeospondylus, the first of which was ...