Newfound Species

Rocks might not sound like a delectable meal to most life-forms, but it's on the menu for a newly identified species of a plump, bizarre-looking clam.

These kangaroo-like rats turn up their long, toothless snouts at peanut butter, but they love earthworms.

Gemstones are precious, especially when they come filled with dinosaur bones.

A crocodile-like beast the length of a Volkswagen Beetle terrorized prey in the late Triassic oceans about 210 million years ago, a new study finds.

This 92-million-year-old tyrannosaur was so small, it was only slightly larger than the skull of its mighty relative, Tyrannosaurus rex.

An ancient crab that lived during the dinosaur age was so strange, paleontologists are calling it the platypus of the crab world.

Here's the strangest crab you may ever lay eyes on.

This newly discovered, but now extinct carnivore lived about 22 million years ago in what is now Kenya. It was larger than a polar bear, the largest land-based carnivore alive today.