Exploring Prehistoric Life
New research reports on discovery of 5-million-year-old honey badger-like animal from West Coast of South Africa.
In a new study published this week in the journal Nature, a team of researchers from the United Kingdom combined fossil records with a new model of flight to measure flight...
Paleontologists have found two nearly complete skeletons from a new genus and species of nothosauroid marine reptile that lived during the Middle Triassic in what is now...
Paleontologists have described new fossils of pelagornithid birds from the middle Eocene Submeseta Formation on Seymour Island, Antarctica.
Large tidal ranges from the Late Silurian to the Late Devonian period (420 to 380 million years ago) could have fostered both the...
A new genus and species of elasmosaurid plesiosaur has been identified by an international team of paleontologists led by Dr....
Amber fossils are like a time capsule, preserving the three-dimensional structure of animals, plants, and other prehistoric items...
Millions of years ago, several species of crocodiles of different genera and characteristics inhabited Europe and sometimes even coexisted. But among all these species, it was thought unlikely that crocodiles of the genus Crocodylus, of African origin, had ever...
A new genus and species of dsungaripterid pterosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous period has been identified from the incomplete lower jaws found in...
The end-Permian mass extinction, also known as the Permian-Triassic extinction event and the Great Dying, is the largest mass extinction event in...