Exploring Prehistoric Life
The message of the 1993 documentary film Jurassic Park was subtle – buried in dense symbolism for the viewer to tease out...
University of Kansas bone hunter Kris Super prowled the base of steep-edged hills in the Hell Creek formation for evidence to solve mysteries millions of years in the making.
The family of real bears can ultimately be traced back to the oldest genus, the Ursavus, which was roughly the size of a sheepdog and had evolved from a canine ancestor.
The whale bones are thought to be 4 to 7 million years old and are possibly from a previously undiscovered species of prehistoric whale.
Annual summer camp on Old Crow River digs up a treasure trove of Ice Age bones.
The bone is actually the thigh bone of a long-extinct aquatic herbivore belonging to the genus Paleoparadoxia. The hippo-like creature isn’t nearly as old as the dinosaurs, but it might be just as interesting.
A combined team of paleontologists which included members from the University of Bristol and the University College Cork has made a breakthrough discovery regarding new sources of melanin.
The new science of paleocolour is shining a light into what dinosaurs looked like and how they lived.
The fossil of the earliest-known giant dinosaur has been unearthed in Argentina. The discovery comes as somewhat of a...
The fossilized remains of an embryonic-to-hatchling snake have been found preserved in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (also known as Burma).