A team of paleontologists has described a newly identified, giant spinosaurid dinosaur from a skull recovered in the central Sahara Desert. The roughly 95-million-year-old predator carried a ...

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Earth’s biological history stretches far beyond the age of dinosaurs. Hundreds of millions of years ago, prehistoric seas and rivers were full of strange fish with armor, fins, lungs, slime, and ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A rare and strange fish from a species that dates back to the time of ...

The extinction of dinosaurs paved the way for ray-finned fish species, researchers claim. Pictured: an animatronic model of a Tyrannosaurus from the "Walking with Dinosaurs" show in Sydney, Jan. 10, ...

“The extinction marked an ecological turning point for the pelagic marine vertebrates,” said professor Richard Norris from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California, San Diego, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michigan Department of Natural Resources staff recently rescued 27 lake sturgeon stranded by low-water conditions in the Upper ...

Carbon in dinosaur teeth from ancient coastlines points to seaweed entering the food chain, but one plant-eater stuck to land plants.