Tag: paleontology

Researchers have found new fauna in northern Brazil, in what used to be the continent of Gondwana.

Tyrannosaurus was one of the fiercest land predators ever, despite claims that the dinosaur was mostly a scavenger. While this ...

This bizarre creature looks like a cross between a scorpion and a boat, which is pretty accurate considering it was ...

A novel analysis reveals T-rex and other theropods - the top land predators that dominated the planet for no less ...

Traces of soft tissue and red blood cells were discovered by accident by a team of paleontologists and biologists while ...

Each year, hundreds of millions people fly by plane to meet family, do business or travel for leisure. Quite a ...

Just like Pluto, the iconic dinosaur genus was demoted decades ago and classified under another sauropod genus. But a more ...

Long before T-rex claimed the top dog spot among terrestrial predators, a vicious crocodile ancestor that walked on its hind ...

Paleontologists diving beneath the surface of a water-filled cave in Madagascar made a monumental find: a graveyard filled with the ...

Based on fossil evidence and genome analysis, scientists know that the two groups diverged from a common ancestor around 420 ...

It's very small and incredibly old - scientists have found the egg of a 240 million year old parasite - ...

Dr Nick Longrich from Bath University was studying bones from two horned dinosaurs from the ceratopsian family (related to Triceratops), when ...

It was about as big as T-Rex, but not quite as fit - new fossils have revealed that Deinocheirus mirificus had quite a ...

Paleontologists have identified the first known animals that used internal fertilization instead of spawning - armor-coated swimmers, called antiarchs, which lived ...

Scientists have discovered a new dinosaur that possibly had the largest nose in prehistory. Ironically, it didn't have a keen ...

Artist’s impression of living Protulophila polyps in a worm tube. Dennis Gordon and Erika MacKay .Talk ...

These reefs were built by Cloudina ~548 million years ago, from the Nama Group, Namibia. Credit: ...

Researchers have discovered the earliest evidence of a bird pollinator visiting flowers, presumably to feed on the nectar - if ...

Photo: Julius Csotonyi Some 65 million years ago an asteroid impact caused countless species of land, ...

(c) PLOS ONE Fossils that capture a kinetic moment are truly fascinating because they surprise a ...