Tag: paleontology

2024 was a busy year for dinosaur discoveries. New research from around the world revealed dozens of new-to-science identifications of ...

It’s typical to encounter weeds around one’s backyard plants. But mastodon teeth? Not so much.A couple in Scotchtown, New York ...

The oldest known saber-toothed predator, dating back over 270 million years ago, appears to have been an animal caught in ...

About 1.5 million years ago, two different species of early man likely came within hours of passing each other on ...

It can be difficult to clock the speeds of animals that lived over 66 million years ago. There’s no speedometer ...

The almost perfectly preserved skull of a prehistoric bird could be a sort of “Rosetta Stone” for understanding the evolution ...

Deinosuchus lived during the late Cretaceous period, from 82 million years to 73 million years ago. This monster croc, whose ...

Amidst the permafrost in Yakutia, Russia, researchers uncovered a mummified saber-tooth cat cub (Homotherium latidens). The well-preserved mummy, still covered ...

On November 24, 1974, Donald Johanson and Tom Gray were riding in a Land Rover on the hunt for bones. ...