Tag: Fossils

Earth’s largest mass extinction eliminated a lot of marine species. But it didn’t eliminate them all. According to a study ...

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Decades after its initial discovery, the skeleton of a prehistoric child who possessed both human and Neanderthal attributes has now ...

After a recent fossil discovery, we now have new insights into the behaviors of a group of prehistoric humans.A team ...

A new fossil discovery may rewrite Australia’s Cretaceous Period evolutionary history. Paleontologists led by Museums Victoria Research Institute and Monash ...

Modern Australia is known for its array of wildlife: poisonous snakes and spiders, saltwater crocodiles, koalas, kangaroos, and more. The ...

Though hardly a household name like Velociraptor or Tyrannosaurus rex, Megalosaurus holds a key place in the history of paleontology. ...

The ancestors of modern waterfowl weren’t all that odd. Diving for fish and other prey in the waters of Antarctica, ...

The ability to fly won’t save you from becoming a land predator’s next meal. At least, that’s what one pterosaur ...

In the Pleistocene Epoch, South America was home to now-extinct animals, including the sabre-toothed cat Smilodon, the giant ground sloth ...