A University of Cambridge-led team has analyzed giant anaconda fossils from South America to deduce that these tropical snakes reached their maximum size 12.4 million years ago and have remained ...

The Green Anaconda is the heaviest snake on Earth today. For decades, many paleontologists suspected that the snake started out smaller and grew over the years. A new Cambridge study says otherwise.

A humungous shark that lived 115 million years ago surpassed the size of modern-day great whites, paleontologists discovered ...

During the Miocene, Europe was home to a mysterious group of great apes known as Dryopithecini. Fossils discovered in France, Spain, and Austria reveal an extinct ape with features that blur the line ...

Early humans like Neanderthals probably kissed, and our ape ancestors could have done so as far back as 21 million years ago. There is wide debate over when humans began kissing romantically. Ancient ...

Nearly 4.5 million years ago, two large, hot stars brushed tantalizingly close to Earth's sun. They left behind a trace in the clouds of gas and dust that swirl just beyond our solar system—almost ...