Newfound Species

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.

A tiny Cretaceous mammal lived among the northernmost dinosaurs on Earth.

Paleontologists have unearthed a new 69 million-year-old mammal species in the North Slope of Alaska.

A newfound dinosaur seems to wear its heart on its tail, according to paleontologists who found the enormous beast and realized this "hopeless romantic" had heart-shaped tail bones.