Scientists estimate more than 99 per cent of all species that have ever existed on Earth are now extinct. Only a handful of them have been preserved as fossils. Fossils are ancient organisms ...

Other prehistoric animals, however, may not have had such a dominating presence. Take procolophonids, for example. These small, lizard-like animals belong to a group called parareptiles ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Researchers have discovered a prehistoric ‘demon-toothed’ fish in Socorro County, New Mexico. The fish, which lived over 300 million years ago, was discovered by New ...

The Devonian, part of the Paleozoic era, is otherwise known as the Age of Fishes, as it spawned a remarkable variety of fish. The most formidable of them were the armored placoderms, a group that ...