Tag: Fossils

Thorin was the name given to a Neanderthal specimen found amongst a small group of Neanderthals that lived between 42,000 ...

The pursuit of de-extinction has broken new ground yet again, as three young wolves are carrying on the legacy of the ...

Life looked different after an asteroid crashed into the planet around 66 million years ago. The dinosaurs died out, the ...

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. ...