Exploring Prehistoric Life
When it comes to naming ancient species, some palaeontologists have a little more fun than others.
A new species of ichthyosaur has been identified from a fossil that has been in the University of Nottingham’s engineering collection for over half a century.
Two of the earth’s five mass extinction events – times when more than half of the world’s species died...
Reproduction in the most common group of Mesozoic birds is very similar to that of these dinosaurs
Humans helped kill off the giant animals of the Ice Age. We owe it to the ecosystem to restore what we destroyed.
A new species of extinct dwarf dolphin that lived about 30 million years ago (Oligocene epoch) and possessed adaptations for suction feeding has been...
There are several features that indicate that they belonged to a different race
Ieldraan melkshamensis, is a member of Geosaurini, a sub-family of prehistoric crocodiles.
This year paleontological excavations are underway in Eastern Kazakhstan under the Modernization of Public Consciousness program.
The ‘Ichthyosaurus Communis’ lived in Belgium, England, Germany, Switzerland and Indonesia