Prehistoric Flora & Fauna
Dinosaurs and influenza would seem to have nothing in common, but a powerful new method of analyzing biogeographical data can be applied to both — helping to solve mysteries about long-extinct animals, while also preventing flu's spread....
The squashed remains of a small bird that lived 99 million years ago have been found encased in a cloudy slab of amber from Myanmar (Burma).
On a ho-hum day some 12,800 years ago, the Earth had emerged from another ice age. Things were warming up, and the glaciers had retreated.
In this article, we discuss the nature of North America in the Late Cretaceous Period. Between 100 and 70 million years ago, the entire continent was divided by a...
An international team of scientists led by researchers from Utrecht University have found the oldest fossil remains of moths and butterflies known to date....
A semi-desert savanna has been inferred for the center of the Iberian Peninsula in the middle Miocene.
After the supercontinent Pangaea separated into the smaller supercontinents of Laurasia and ...
Being diagnosed with cancer doesn’t necessarily carry the same weight as it did a few decades ago, and treatments today have increased the survival rates for many types of the disease dramatically.
The catastrophic asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago may not have been so...
Theory suggests that large animals are disproportionately important to the spread of fertility across the planet