Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Where they lived: Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent, including Antarctica. What they ate: Some ate plants, while ...

Some of the giant marine reptiles that ruled the seas during the age of dinosaurs were better built for surprise attacks, ...

Long after the dinosaurs disappeared from Earth around 66 million years ago, some remarkable reptile lineages continued to survive and evolve. While modern reptiles are not all direct descendants of ...

Edward Cope and his mentors explored the marl pits of New Jersey to turn up some of the first dinosaurs found in North ...

Today's living night lizards—like Xantusia vigilis (pictured)—are descendants of a common ancestor that lived roughly 90 million years ago, well before the Chicxulub asteroid struck Earth 66 million ...

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Spinosaurus was one of the strangest large predatory dinosaurs, with a crocodile-like snout, massive sail-like spine, and ...

Florida is home to thousands of unique creatures, but some of Florida's most iconic critters are actually invasive. According to the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, the state is ...

Prehistoric Eastern Europe was home to small island dinosaurs, but something much larger was watching from above. Giant ...

Learn more about archosauromorphs, the early relatives of dinosaurs, that survived inhospitable terrain during the Triassic period. Archosauromorphs walked — across a 10,000-mile hellscape — so ...

The Pteranodon Family goes to Lizard Island. / The family helps a beached Ichthyosaurs. The Conductor takes the Pteranodon Family for a special trip to Lizard Island, where they discover that it's ...