Prehistoric Flora & Fauna
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.
The cataclysmic Chicxulub impact roughly 66 million years ago spawned a tsunami that produced wave heights of several meters in distant waters, new simulations suggest....
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.