Exploring Prehistoric Life

Tue, 2018-10-09

Scientists generally agree that dinosaurs died off as a result of a giant meteor hitting the Earth 66 million years ago, but a recent study now claims the end for the prehistoric creatures may have been no different than their oft-debated beginning....

Tue, 2018-10-09

The ancestors of today’s squamates were lost in time. Now paleontologists have identified the earliest known example: Meet...

Tue, 2018-10-09

The appearance of the ancestors of modern kangaroos associated with global climate change and the spread of grassland three million years ago.

Tue, 2018-10-02

The oldest skeleton remains known to fossil chronicle of the Earth belonged to the microorganisms that lived 700-650 million years ago. International research team proved that a larger organisms of the same period, such as Palaeopascichnus linearis...

Sun, 2018-09-30

Millions of years ago, Taylor County was a far different place, one recorded in its fossil record.

Sat, 2018-09-29

After decades of conflicting evidence and numerous publications, a team of researchers at the Zoological Society of London’s Institute of Zoology has finally put the ‘world’s largest bird’ debate to rest.

Fri, 2018-09-28

Science is getting closer to bringing back species we thought were gone forever.

Wed, 2018-09-26

Chinese paleontologists reported a newly identified, extincted bird species from a 127 million-year-old fossil deposit in northeastern China.

Tue, 2018-09-25

The Earth’s climate is changing, and it’s changed before. The world’s oceans are warming, and they’ve warmed before.

Sat, 2018-09-22

The University of British Columbia now has a rare ancient sea monster to amaze visitors to its Pacific Museum of the Earth.

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