Exploring Prehistoric Life
Every school child knows the dinosaurs were killed off by an asteroid smashing into the Earth some 66 million years ago...
'Prince Edward Island holds Canada’s only fossil record of life on land in the Permian period'
According to new research published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, land animal diversity has been similar for at least the last 60 million years...
Paleontologists have uncovered a new species of marsupial that lived during the Cretaceous period above the Arctic Circle, the farthest north marsupials have...
Organisms lived on the bottom of the sea 2.1 billion years ago.
Sam Neill and Laura Dern have staged a mini Jurassic Park reunion amid rumours they’ll both return for ...
What traits distinguish one dinosaur from another? For many, that question probably conjures characteristics like the massive jaws of tyrannosaurs, the...
Some 250 million years ago (early Triassic period), an early relative of dinosaurs and crocodiles lived in what is now a frozen continent, Antarctica, according...
A team of Chinese, American and Canadian researchers have discovered amber containing a bird foot dating back around 100 million years.
The ancient arachnids had eyes that shone in the dark—a key adaptation for night vision.