Exploring Prehistoric Life
The exceptionally preserved fossils of the oldest species of scorpion ever found have been unearthed in Wisconsin, the United States.
Paleontologists from the University of Missouri have discovered the well-preserved digestive tracts in the fossils of microscopic animals called cloudinomorphs. The worm-like...
“It was just really lucky,” said Dr. Smith, who works at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and is part of the team that reported the find in Nature Communications.
A Carboniferous-period fossil found in Nova Scotia, Canada, shows an ancient creature called a varanopid...
A new genus and species of lungfish that lived approximately 365 million years ago (Famennian stage of the Late Devonian period)...
Let's face it, dinosaurs enjoyed their rule of the roost on Earth for an epic length of time and were, as Jurassic Park's ...
New 96-million-year old turtles from Texas connect North America with Asia and the Southern Hemisphere, suggesting vast intercontinental migrations during this time.
An international team of researchers has pinpointed the first comprehensive age for the last known occurrence of the early hominin species Homo erectus.
Paleontologists in Alabama have announced the discovery of a new genus and species of fossil sea turtle that may fill an important gap in the evolution of sea turtles.