Exploring Prehistoric Life
This new type of condor was baptized as Pampagyps imperator.
The extremely well-preserved hatchling of Tasbacka danica was collected in 2008 from within a limestone concretion in the Ejerslev Mo-clay pit on the Isle of Mors, Denmark.
Paleontologists have discovered a new species of extinct hyaenodont in Tanzania. The fossil offers new insights into the disappearance of hyaenodonts — once Africa’s top predator — during the Paleogene.
Total darkness lasted two years, and in the absence of sunlight, plants wither when photosynthesis cannot occur.
Predatory sea worms just aren’t as spiny as they used to be.
Paleontologists estimate that more than three-quarters of all species on Earth, including all non-avian dinosaurs, disappeared about 65 million years ago
Dinosaurs are more than just scary monsters featured in Hollywood blockbuster movies.
The order under which Elephants are classified is the Proboscidea.
The evolutionary history of cetaceans is thought to have occurred in the Indian subcontinent from even-toed ungulates 50 million years ago, over a period of at least 15 million years.