Tag: paleontology

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 ...

Crossing  the riverbed of Carrizo Creek in Oklahoma, a series of tracks made by a two-legged dinosaur have been preserved ...