Tag: paleontology

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 ...

Evidence of one of the smallest — and perhaps unluckiest — early human relatives has been found in South Africa, ...

A team of Australian scientists discovered a large set of dinosaur footprints on a boulder displayed at a high school. ...

We’re gonna need a bigger shark size estimate. Researchers had based some informed guesses about just how massive the megalodon ...

Of all the animals facing a major mass extinction event 252 million years ago, it is perhaps appropriate that frog-like ...

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

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, ...