Exploring Prehistoric Life
Not only the meter-long adults crawling around the primordial ooze had circular mouths with radiating teeth: So did the kiddies.
We're living in a new "Golden Age" for paleontology.
Paleontologists have discovered fossilized remains of the world’s oldest bony fish, which swam the Devonian seas 400 million years...
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.