More than 500 million years ago, during what is known as the Cambrian period, the seas and oceans on Earth were filled with a ...

The ancient past is remembered mostly for its diversity of dinosaurs, but before dinosaurs, insects ruled the world and they ...

An amateur fossil hunter recently discovered a rare fragment of the world's oldest marine crocodile in Lyme Regis, so what is ...

Some animals don’t need movie effects to look impossible. A shoebill can stare like a swamp dinosaur, a star-nosed mole has a ...

A goblin shark catapults its jaw out like a slingshot. A fish swims around with a perfectly clear skull. But these are real ...

Fairhopers Community Park sits in one of Alabama’s most charming coastal towns, where art galleries and boutique shops line ...

Legacy of Monsters Season 2 (2026) - Apple TV Contains spoilers for "Monarch: Legacy of Monsters" Season 2 Apple TV's ...

The Futura Team represents the pulse of Futura’s editorial department, bringing together a collective expertise dedicated to the dissemination of scientific knowledge. Rather than the work of a single ...

The discovery of the battered remains of a 180-million-year-old dolphin-like sea creature has changed what scientists previously thought about the prehistoric predator.

The Kraken is a huge tentacled sea monster from Norse folklore that drags ships and sailors down into the deep. During the age of dinosaurs, new research ​shows, there existed a creature as close to a ...

Some octopuses that lived over 72 million years ago were as long as whales. These huge predators may have been the largest invertebrates ever.

Dinosaurs have been fearsome and fascinating — but tragic? When science said dinosaurs were pea-brained and cold-blooded, humans took their demise as proof of the superiority of warm, clever mammals.