It looked something like a centipede, but without the legs. It had a protuberant snout like a swordfish and stubby swimming flaps. And it was longer than your coffee table. At roughly seven feet in ...

New evidence has been provided to explain why deep sea creatures were able to survive the catastrophic asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. A team led by experts at ...

Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan receives funding from the National Research Foundation. Sir Richard Owen came up with the name dinosaur in 1841 to describe the fossils of extinct reptiles. He coined the word ...

Scientists and artists have been reconstructing the appearance of dinosaurs and other ancient creatures for centuries. But they've often gotten it wrong. Whether they were hampered by a lack of bones, ...