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, ...

A massive, fanged creature with a head shaped like a toilet seat lurked in swamps near the edge of the world 280 million years ago, long before the first dinosaurs appeared, new research has found.

Scientists have discovered a curious creature with no anus is not the earliest human ancestor, as previously thought. The mysterious microscopic creature is instead part of a different family tree, a ...

U of T researchers – some of whom are students – have uncovered fossils of creatures that roamed the earth or swam in its waters millions of years ago. But it’s only with the help of science ...

We often think of dinosaurs as some of the most terrifying creatures that have ever existed. But what if I told you that there were some ancient creatures that were even more terrifying than dinosaurs ...

It was soft, wormlike, lived more than 500 million years ago - and now scientists say the extinct animal was an ancient ancestor of modern vertebrates. Scientists have long been searching for fossils ...

Grand Canyon fossils in the Bright Angel formation reveal 500M-year-old animals with dual feeding structures, reshaping ...

A acorn worm — known scientifically as enteropneusts - is shown in this undated handout photo. Researchers have unearthed evidence of a strangely shaped creature — OK, it looks like a phallus — ...

A species of ancient trilobites grew big forks on their heads to fight their opponents and impress potential mates, in what scientists say could be the earliest known example of ritualized combat.

TORONTO – Researchers have unearthed evidence of a strangely shaped creature – OK, it looks like a phallus – that lived more than 500 million years ago in the famed Burgess Shale fossil beds in B.C.’s ...