Tag: paleontology

The Balkans and Anatolia once formed a single landmass separated from the rest of Europe, and may have been a ...

Not the first place you'd expect to find a whale, isn't it?

The Royal Mint is honoring her work in the field of paleontology.

The 20,000-year-old remains of a mammoth bear signs of human hunting and butchery.

The 'well-dressed' dinosaur may offer hints about how birds such as peacocks evolved to show off.

Small, dinosaur-like animals may have been the ancestors of the first flying vertebrates.

Sometimes, it's best to admit that we simply don't know the right answer (yet).

These flying reptiles dominated the skies until they were wiped out by a killer asteroid.

Although they had fur and whiskers, the earliest mammals had long lifespans like reptiles.

This pristinely preserved scene in fossilized amber is an extremely rare example of ancient predation in action.

It's amazing what you can do with one fossil.

The perfect Valentine's dinosaur -- a massive Titanosaur!

To the untrained eye, they look just like plants, static and seemingly inactive. But things are not always as they ...

This isn't the last piece of the puzzle -- in fact, it's the very first.

We don't even know if they were plants or animals.

The 245-million-year-old fossils overturns the established view that early dino relatives were the size of a chicken and feeble.

Geoscientists working in South America have uncovered an ancient berry.

Bones to stones.

Paleontologists have identified an ancient hyena-like canine that occupied eastern North America approximately 12 million years ago. The coyote-sized dog ...

Sauropods, or some titanosaurs at least, were not the best parents. A recent analysis of juvenile fossils belonging to a ...