Exploring Prehistoric Life
Paleontologists in Tasmania have unearthed the fossilized remains of a previously unknown species of the trilobite genus Gravicalymene and named it after Thomas Stewart Baker, the fourth actor to play the title character in the...
Dr. David Unwin from the University of Leicester and University of Portsmouth’s Professor Dave Martill believe Mesozoic flying reptiles called pterosaurs had a relatively smooth skin without any covering.
In June 2013, a group of researchers from the Catalan Paleontology Institute received a call from a group of people in the Coll de Nargó region of Spain, a tiny town in the Pyrenees of Lleida, notorious for the number of fossil remains of dinosaurs. The scientists...
Its neck was three times as long as its torso, but had only 13 extremely elongated vertebrae: Tanystropheus, a...
New specimens from Ice Age of China provide clues to origin of pack-hunting in modern wolves.
Scientists have unearthed the remains of Jurassic sea predators resembling killer whales in the world's driest desert in Chile.
Gnathomortis stadtmani, the only species of the newly-described mosasaur genus, swam in the seas of North America between 79 and 81 million years ago (...
The Carnian Pluvial Episode, a major climate change event that occurred around 234 to 232 million years ago (Late...
In another fascinating snapshot from deep time, an international team of paleontologists has reported the discovery of specimens of a minuscule crustacean that dates back to the...