Paleontology

Mammoths: The Misunderstood Giants

in general, we tend to hold up our hands and blame our naughty ancestors for killing all of the ...

Article - Oliver Knevitt - Nov 13 2013 - 8:34am

"Even Weirder Than We Imagined"- Anzu Wyliei, The Dinosaur Chicken From Hell

their oviraptorid cousins, all of which have been found in rocks that were deposited under arid to ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2014 - 4:36pm

Tully Monster Unmasked

as the coelacanth, but as a clade including also all the land vertebrates from frogs to humans. When ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Mar 16 2016 - 6:15pm

More Like Modules: T. Rex Had A Flexible Skull

tearing apart prey animals.   The analysis revealed that, among all groups of animals analyzed in the ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 6 2019 - 5:16pm

70 Million Years Ago: Earliest Example Of Nest Sharing Discovered

four different types of egg shell, indicating that four types of animals all shared the same nesting ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 20 2019 - 11:38am

Batrachopus Grandis: Crocodille Ancestor Walked On Two Feet

with footprints showing they walked on all fours. Batrachopus grandis was instead 12 feet in size and ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 11 2020 - 5:24pm

What Are Noeggerathiales? Read This And Find Out

a 66-cm-thick bed of volcanic ash that fell 298 million years ago and smothered all the plants growing in ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 11 2021 - 5:34pm

Homo Erectus' From Gongwangling May Have Been First For China

colonized Asia during the Pleistocene. The Gongwangling skull presents all the characteristics described for ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 14 2022 - 9:21am

Ghost Lineage: Jurassic Crocodile One Of The Oldest Of Its Kind

are found in all the major river systems of the northern Indian subcontinent. had particularly large ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2023 - 9:48am

Reidus Hilli: New 100 Million-Year-Old Fish Species Discovered In Texas

recent common ancestor with all of terrestrial vertebrates. Coelacanths have boney support in their fins, ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 24 2012 - 5:13pm