Prehistoric Flora & Fauna
Robert DePalma and Dr. Anton Oleinik teach paleontology at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. In their spare time, they're making earth-shattering discoveries in North Dakota about the day 66 million years ago when an...
An international team of paleontologists from China and the United States has found high levels of mercury in the end-Permian marine sediments at nearly a dozen sites around the world, which provides persuasive evidence that volcanic eruptions were to blame for...
The beginning of the end started with violent shaking that raised giant waves in the waters of an inland sea in what is now North Dakota.
Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic...
A vast floodplain 10 times the size of the Amazon delta existed during the early days of the dinosaurs. It is the largest known delta from Earth’s history and may have been a crucial habitat.
More than 80 precious plant fossils were exhibited in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, recently.
New research from Berkeley research group reveals new questions about the mass-extinctions 60 million years ago....
A new compound based on Iridium, a rare metal which landed in the Gulf of Mexico 66 M years ago, hooked onto albumin, a...
When the dinosaur-killing asteroid collided with Earth more than 65 million years ago, it did not go gently into that good night....
An international team of paleontologists has identified and described a new genus and species of extinct flowering plant (angiosperm), based on over 200 specimens from the South Xiangshan Formation, China.