Exploring Prehistoric Life
The skull was from a small fur-covered, egg-laying mammal that co-existed with the dinosaurs called the Cifelliodon...
While the event of their disappearance is so often the dramatic coda of books and documentaries, it might be surprising to know that the extinction of the dinosaurs is usually one of the least interesting questions out there to many paleontologists....
Dinosaurs dominated Earth for over 140 million years before having their reign ended by a colossal asteroid impact....
The new findings reveal “how resilient life can be,” says Gareth Collins, a planetary scientist at Imperial College London who was not involved in the research. “Such a rapid recovery … is remarkable.”
Art and science can seem like they are worlds apart, but in the work of palaeontologist Julian Hume, they are constantly colliding.
Paleontologists have unearthed the world’s oldest squamate fossil — 240-million-year-old specimen of a species called Megachirella wachtleri — from a site in the Dolomite Mountains, Italy.
An international research team led by scientists at University College Cork, Linyi University, and China’s Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology has found and analyzed dandruff fragments preserved amongst the plumage of C...
The Jurassic Park series taught us – five times and counting – that resurrecting the prehistoric master species is somewhat ill-...
A research team with a Chicago connection has uncovered new evidence about the devastating impact of the dinosaur-...
A recent discovery of a 130-million-year-old fossilized skull in eastern Utah is shaking up what researchers know about evolutionary history.