Prehistoric Flora & Fauna
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.
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...