Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. illustration of Monquirasaurus boyacensis, a Cretaceous pliosaur from what is now Colombia Biodiversity was booming in the early ...

Tyrannosaurus rex youngsters paddle through shallow ocean water near a sandy shore, their powerful legs working hard to make up for their disproportionately tiny arms. Long-necked sauropods nuzzle ...

The kraken — a gigantic, tentacled sea monster capable of dragging ships and sailors down into the depths — is a creature of Norwegian myth. But millions of years ago, a similar real-life animal ...

A new species of crocodile dating back to the Cretaceous period has been discovered in Queensland, Australia, and its last meal was a young dinosaur, scientists say. The fossilized bones of a ...

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The Cretaceous Period produced some of the most unusual dinosaurs ever discovered, with body shapes that still feel unsettlingly unfamiliar. Many of these creatures are known from incomplete fossil ...

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Scientists have discovered an enormous species of duck-billed dinosaur that lived in what is now New Mexico about 75 million years ago. The dinosaur, Ahshislesaurus wimani, likely had a flat head and ...

Includes pull-out sheet of stickers. For primary school age. The world during the Cretaceous Period was a very different place to what we know it as today. Dinosaurs reached their peak in diversity ...

Scientists recently uncovered fossilized jawbones of Nanaimoteuthis haggarti – a massive, kraken-like octopus that roamed Earth about 72 million years ago.According to a recent study published in the ...