Prehistoric Flora & Fauna
A paper published on Spetember 2018, reports that a recent fossil discovery in Central Utah is changing what researchers know about the emergence of large flowering trees both here in the Mountain West, and around the world.
Some of these massive beasts are familiar in form but enormous in size, while others are strange hybrids of modern-day animals.
Woolly mammoths included.
The last of the non-avian dinosaurs disappeared from our fragile planet around 65 million years ago. And an asteroid did it, right?
A study published in the journal Current Biology described a new mid-Cretaceous (99-million-year-old) boganiid beetle with specialized pollen feeding...
New research suggests that soft-bodied organisms called Ediacarans may have been related to an animal of the Cambrian period...
According to a new paper in the journal Palaeontology, for the first time it has been discovered that an organism from the Precambrian...
Corals may have teamed up with the microscopic algae which live inside them as much as 160 million years ago, according to new research.
These strange life forms dominated Earth’s seas half a billion years ago, and scientists have long struggled to figure out whether they’re algae, fungi, or even an entirely different kingdom of life...
Coral reefs may date back to the age of dinosaurs, up to 160 million years ago, and are likely to have survived previous episodes of global warming, international research suggests.