Exploring Prehistoric Life
Museum collections provide valuable datasets, and this one is no exception.
Jurassic deep-water reptiles thrived as sea levels rose, while species that dwelled in the shallows waters disappeared, according to new research from the...
The fossilized turtle is 228 million years old and also has the distinct toothless beak of a turtle, which is the...
Deep water reptiles diversified as Mesozoic sea levels rose. Their shallow water counterparts declined.
A recent multiproxy analysis by an international collaborative of researchers has produced a vivid picture of the dietary habits of extinct proboscideans in Central Chile, thereby also informing a picture of South American microclimates that Holmes might approve...
The discovery was made in the framework of the international expedition, which was attended by cavers from Russia, France and Switzerland.
The Museu Nacional houses artefacts from Egypt, Greco-Roman art and some of the first fossils found in Brazil.
RUSSIA is planning a major new £4.5 million cloning facility aiming to bring back to life the extinct woolly mammoth and rhinoceros as well as other long-gone species....
On the east coast of North America, dinosaur fossils are rare finds. Owing to several factors, such as the mass-urbanization of the...
A research team led by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology scientist Thomas van de Kamp has found ancient parasitoid wasps lurking inside 55 mineralized fly pupae from the...