Newfound Species

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.

Talk about romantic! This teenage titanosaur had heart-shaped tail bones.

With tentacle-covered snouts, claw-like spines that protrude from their heads and bodies covered in armor, these newfound catfish look more myth than reality.

A snake pulled from inside another snake's stomach was a species unknown to science.