An extremely rare fossil of an ancient venomous scorpion was unearthed at China's Jehol Biota and was a key species in the ...

An extraordinary fossil bed in the arid grasslands of the Australian continent, called McGraths Flat, really is ...

Researchers believe it would’ve been a key species in the food chain, gobbling up spiders ... where the fossil currently resides. J. longchengi was roughly 4 inches (10 centimeters) long, making it ...

Researchers believe the J. longchengi was a mesopredator, preying not only on insects and spiders but even small mammals of its times.

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

"Everyone always says Giant Size X-Men this, Giant Size X-Men that," says Spider-Editor Nick Lowe of the new book. "And I'm sick of it, so we put together the best and coolest Giant-Size book ever." ...

Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute noticed the sea spider, the size of a dinner plate, about 2km beneath the icy surface waters of the South Sandwich Islands, a chain of volcanic islands ...

Ever since their discovery more than 165 years ago, massive fossilized structures left by an organism known as Prototaxites have proven impossible to categorize. Researchers in the UK have now ...

Experts from the Slovak Academy of Sciences now agree it is an even rarer find—likely from another prehistoric giant. A large travertine mound occupies part of Lauko’s garden in Santovka, southern ...