An illustration showing Lystrosaurus during the end-Permian mass extinction. Credit: Gina Viglietti Our planet’s worst mass extinction event happened 252 million years ago when massive…
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With a frilled head and beaked face, Menefeeceratops sealeyi, discovered in New Mexico, lived 82 million years ago. It predated its better-known relative, Triceratops. Credit:…
Pluridens would have reached up to eight meters long. Credit: Andrey Atuchin Scientists have identified the fossil of a giant mosasaur in Morocco that grew…
Life reconstruction of Sahonachelys mailakavava, preying upon tadpoles of the giant Madagascan frog Beelzebufo ampinga using specialized suction feeding. Credit: Artwork by Andrey Atuchin A…
The last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans represents the starting point of human and chimpanzee evolution. Fossil apes play an essential role when it…
Shuvuuia deserti artist’s reconstruction. Credit: Viktor Radermaker The tiny desert-living dinosaur Shuvuuia had extraordinary vision and owl-like hearing for nocturnal life in the Mongolian desert.…
The first and most complete fossil of Besanosaurus leptorhynchus is a pregnant female (containing one embryo) on display at the Milan Natural History Museum, together…
Ecological reconstruction of the Zhangpu biota. Credit: NIGPAS Newly Discovered Miocene Biome Sheds Light on Rainforest Evolution An international research group led by Prof. WANG…
This artist’s illustration of Yamatosaurus izanagii (center) represents its ancestry to more advanced hadrosaurs (in the background). Credit: Artwork by Masato Hattori An international team…
Galería de las Estatuas cave site in northern Spain. Credit: Javier Trueba – Madrid Scientific Films For the first time, scientists have succeeded in extracting…
Loch Torridon A billion year old fossil, which provides a new link in the evolution of animals, has been discovered in the Scottish Highlands. Scientists…
Skulls of early Homo from Georgia with an ape-like brain (left) and from Indonesia with a human-like brain (right). Credit: M. Ponce de León and…
A skull of the extinct horned crocodile from Madagascar (Voay robustus), which is part of the American Museum of Natural History’s paleontology collection. Credit: M.…
Illustration showing how the three new species of fossil cloud rats might have looked. Credit: © Velizar Simeonovski, Field Museum Fluffy rodents twice the size…
The skeleton of Trix at Naturalis Biodiversity Center. Credit: Mike Bink Humans and animals have a preferred walking speed. This is, in part, influenced by…
Tarantulas are among the most notorious spiders, due in part to their size, vibrant colors, and prevalence throughout the world. But one thing most people…
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the extinct mammal community recovered at the fossil site of Els Casots (Spain), dated around 16 million years ago, which is an…
Analysis of what’s known about the dinosaur leads to conclusion there were 2.5 billion over time. How many Tyrannosaurus rexes roamed North America during the…
This illustration shows an artist’s rendering of a pterosaur (Alanqa saharica). Credit: Davide Bonadonna Little is known about azhdarchid pterosaurs, gigantic flying reptiles with impressive…
Gray wolves take down a horse on the mammoth-steppe habitat of Beringia during the late Pleistocene (around 25,000 years ago). Credit: Julius Csotonyi Gray wolves…