Tag: paleontology

Key Takeaways on the Smallest Dinosaur: At around 30 cm (11 in) in length, a species called Epidexipteryx likely takes ...

Footprints that stroll through a patchy area of Grecian beach 6 million years ago has caused researchers to rethink the ...

Megalodon teeth have always been key to understanding the ancient marine predator. Fossilized teeth are all that remain to prove ...

A cataclysmic asteroid collision may not sound like the starting place for life. But 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub ...

Australia and South America weren’t always so separate. At one time, many millions of years ago, these two continents were ...

Archaeopteryx lived about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period. Although the first Archaeopteryx fossil was discovered more than ...

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 ...