Exploring Prehistoric Life
The remains belonged to the most powerful carnivore of Argentina's Quaternary Period.
Carcharocles megalodon, also known simply as the Megalodon or “Meg,” is arguably the largest macro-predator the world has ever known. The species...
If you ponder mammoths, certain species of which died out a mere 3,000 or so years ago, their existence is but a breath away from our own. Echoes of their lives can be seen in today’s elephants, which lumber across our world in ways that might not be so different...
They're calling it the "Jurassic Mile," where dinosaurs once chased prey through muck and some of the biggest creatures of 150 million years ago lumbered over a tropical flood plain.
Animal life exploded in diversity and form during the Cambrian Period about 500 million years ago. An international team of...
The fossils from the Cambrian Period include dozens of new species and provide a window into life more than 500 million...
A crushed, pancake-like fossil unearthed in northwestern China contains both a bird and its unlaid egg.
The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, also known as Clovis comet hypothesis, posits that the hemisphere-wide debris field of a large, disintegrating asteroid (or comet...
Ohio University researchers announced a new species of mammal from the Age of Dinosaurs, representing the most complete mammal from the Cretaceous Period of...
In 2010, the 28,140-year-old partial carcass of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), nicknamed ‘Yuka,’ was found in Siberian permafrost.