Tag: fossils

Meet Hadrosaurus, the dinosaur that changed our understanding of prehistoric life.

A nice silver lining to a terrible drought.

It lived around 500 million years ago and was thought to be a common ancestor of deuterostomes

A truly spectacular find!

The people have spoken!

That's a lot of "million years ago".

A nice way to see the world when travel isn't an option.

Colors can tell many things about the behavior of long-extinct species.

"It's not just a phase, mom!"

Oxygen, in the right place at the right time, makes for spectacular fossils.

Usually described as fierce predators, saber-toothed cats are imagined as stalking the open savannah in pursuit of bison, horses and ...

A historical example of how classifying a species can sometimes be very confusing.

It's so sad though :(.

This is likely not our first brush with alien life.

Genome sequencing of infant found in Alaska reveals new Native American Population

A prehistoric walk in the park

Looks like it's not always asteroids.

The fossils were discovered in the Parnaiba Basin of north-eastern Brazil, and are some 278 million years old, corresponding to ...

Recent fossils unearthed in the Chinese province of Daoxian come to unravel the story of humanity’s spread as we know ...

Paleodictyon is a mysterious fossil pattern found mainly in marine sediments thought to be specific of a certain paleo-depth range; it ...

Billions of years ago, the Earth was unrecognizable from the life supporting paradise it is today. Fossilized raindrops from some ...

Two days ago, the whole world was teeming with excitement, after some NASA researchers reported finding traces of alien life ...

It was more than 300 million years ago that reptiles made tracks on earth. The exact moment when this happened ...

Some of these are truly puzzling, some are shrouded in conspiracy theories.