Tag: paleontology

Europe isn’t known for its elephants. At least, the three species of elephant that traverse Earth today — the African ...

We often picture the Caribbean as a place to relax and escape life’s challenges. Evidently, so too did the sebecid ...

Australia’s giant kangaroos of yesteryear were likely homebodies — and that inclination ultimately did them in.The massive marsupial megaherbivores, which, ...

Paleontologists in Argentina recently found the first unambiguous evidence that a group of theropod dinosaurs had hollow bones capable of ...

Paleontologists have arrived at the conclusion that a particular type of dinosaur footprints discovered in parts of western Canada probably ...

The results of searching the family tree of the woolly mammoth have been surprising; it turns out the beasts we ...

If an expansive Mesozoic menu was laid out in front of you, what would you order? Tyranno tenders or triceratops-burgers ...

It sounds like a paleontological crime scene: dozens of ancient amphibian fossils found buried relatively close together. The bones of ...

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 ...