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 Crocodile, close up view.

Peruvian scientists unveil 10-million-year-old juvenile crocodile fossil found in Ocucaje desert

 A dinosaur is seen in prehistoric times in this artistic illustration.

Recent research into dinosaur diets shows why they ruled the Earth

 Scaphognathus crassirostris cast.

The ‘Sword Tail from Bavaria’: fossil helps researchers piece together Pterosaur evolution

 Munster Natural History Museum, Germany: Skeleton of Underwater and aquatic marine huge Maiacetus or mother whale predatory dinosaurs.

Super hearing and 102 teeth: 22-million-year old Ur-dolphin fossil reveals unique abilities

 Fossil of a nothosaurus, 2017.

Discovery of oldest sea monster fossil in New Zealand sheds light on dawn of dinosaur age

Protesters against fossil fuel hold signs along a road as U.S. President Joe Biden visits Mather, California, U.S., September 13, 2021.

Fossil fuel use, emissions hit records in 2023, report says

By REUTERS
 An artist’s reconstruction of the 67 million-year-old Cretaceous Period landscape of North Dakota with a juvenile T-rex

'Teen Rex': Rare fossil of adolescent Tyrannosaurus found by US kids

By REUTERS
 An assistant compares a fossilised tooth of a giant whale called Leviathan against the whale's fossilised jaw at the Natural History Museum in Lima June 30, 2010. The fossil of a giant whale called Leviathan for having teeth bigger than a grown man's forearms has been found in Peru by paleontologis

Gigantic marine reptile's fossils found by British girl and father

By REUTERS
 Tridentinosaurus antiquus was discovered in the Italian Alps in 1931 and was thought to be an important specimen for understanding early reptile evolution

Mystery solved: Oldest fossil reptile found in the Alps is historical forgery

 Life reconstruction of Tutcetus rayanensis: A scene depicting two extinct basilosaurid whales, with the foreground individual preying on a nautilid cephalopod and another swimming in the background

Ancient fossil sheds light on how whales made move to water

 A honey bee

Mummified bees from time of King Solomon found off coast of Portugal

Arenaerpeton supinatus

240-million-year-old giant amphibian fossil receives new recognition

Jellyfish 370

Scientists find oldest fossilized jellyfish - study

 Perucetus colossus, an early whale from Peru that lived about 38-40 million years ago, a marine mammal built somewhat like a manatee that may have exceeded the mass of the blue whale, long considered the heftiest animal on record, is seen in an undated artist's rendition.

Ancient whale from Peru may be most massive animal ever on Earth

By REUTERS
 Tuf Kerem Maharal Reserve

Experience the beauty and history of the Tuf Kerem Maharal Reserve

By ITSIK MAROM
 Cretaceous carnivorous mammal Repenomamus robustus attacking the plant-eating dinosaur Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis

Dramatic fossil shows pugnacious mammal attacking a dinosaur

By REUTERS
 Photograph of the whole specimen of Petrodacyle wellnhoferi.

The king takes flight: New pterosaur 'Elvis' receives scientific name

 Illustrative depiction of the Australopithecus Afarensis

Step this way: When did humans learn how to walk upright? - study