Amongst the most enduring mythical creatures, which were present in so many ancient cultures, are the dragons. Appearing frequently in folklore and tales from China in the east to Europe in the west, ...

While modern octopuses have DNA that consistently gets reshuffled, resulting in some chromosomal mixing, the researchers found that the vampire squid's genome kept much of its ancestral, squid-like ...

At the end of the Cretaceous Period, a type of giant reptile called mosasaurs occupied and dominated oceanic food webs.

Researchers have dated vertebrae from a massive prehistoric shark thought to have ruled the waves off northern Australia back ...

Giant tortoises are some of the long-lived species on the planet. Here’s what biologists now understand about one of nature’s ...