Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist illustration of the extinct, Khinjaria acuta, chasing fish underwater with its jaw open. Paleontologists in Morocco have ...

More than two decades after a skull was pulled from rock in northeastern Mexico, scientists have finally put a name to the creature it belonged to - and it turns out to be a species entirely new to ...

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Scientists have discovered the fossils of a new prehistoric species in Morocco — a bizarre-looking marine lizard considerably larger than a great white shark, which, they say, dominated the seas while ...

A GIANT 62ft octopus likened to the mythical kraken that swallowed up ships actually roamed the seas in the dinosaur era, new research shows. The gargantuan sea monster was an apex predator when ...

Geologists in Mississippi unearthed a large vertebra belonging to a Mosasaurus hoffmannii, a giant marine reptile from the late Cretaceous period. The discovered vertebra, potentially the largest ...

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Paleontology researchers in Europe have identified a new species of ancient marine reptile – often referred to as a "Jurassic sea monster" or "sea dragon" – that existed nearly 183 million years ago.

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) - 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 ...

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