The fossilized remains of a new, nearly complete longnecked sauropod dinosaur were recently unearthed on the island of Madagascar. The discovery was announced today in the journal Nature by National ...

Arlington, Va. -- The exotic island of Madagascar, situated off the southeast coast of Africa, was a dangerous place to live 65 million to 70 million years ago. Crocodiles swarmed in the rivers, and a ...

Madagascar produced some of the strangest predators in dinosaur history. Majungasaurus stood at the top of that list. Fossil evidence shows it fed not only on other animals, but on its own species.

A "tiny bug slayer" that only reached 4 inches in height was the ancestor of much larger dinosaurs and flying pterosaurs 237 million years ago, according to a new study. A "tiny bug slayer" that only ...

What starts as the story of a little-known predator quickly becomes a deep dive into one of the most disturbing dinosaurs ever discovered. Living on the isolated island of Madagascar during the final ...

At a time when the vast majority of mammals were the size of shrews and mice, Vintana sertichi was a super heavyweight. Researchers have unearthed the skull of a primitive mammal with remarkably keen ...

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And Madagascar has been an island for a long time. It separated from the Indian subcontinent 88 million years ago and has been on its own ever since. This allowed animals and dinosaurs on Madagascar, ...