A reconstruction of the ancient landscape of South Korea with crocodile track-makers. Credit: Dr. Anthony Romilio An international research team has been stunned to discover…
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Three-dimensional virtual reconstruction of the braincase of the ankylosaur Bissektipelta archibaldi. Bones are semi-transparent and the internal contents of the endocranial cavity are seen. Pink…
Illustration of Borealopelta markmitchelli dinosaur by Julius Csotonyi. Credit: © Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology More than 110 million years ago, a lumbering 1,300-kilogram (~2900…
The attached image shows Wightia declivirostris flying over an oxbow lake in the valley of the ancient Wessex River that flowed from Devon to the…
This is an artistic life reconstruction of Nannopterygius. Credit: Andrey-Atuchin The skeleton of an extinct ‘fish lizard’ locked in a glass case over 16ft from…
Antelope in South Africa. Pinnacle Point, a series of archaeological sites that overlook a now submerged section of South Africa’s coastline and one of the…
Life reconstruction of Priosphenodon avelasi. Credit: Nobu Tamura, CC BY-SA 4.0 Priosphenodon specimens found in Argentina show the Late Cretaceous reptile evolved to have resilient…
(Click image for full view.) This is an artist impression of Titanichthys. Credit: Mark Witton (used with permission) Scientists from the University of Bristol and…
Skull of Qihe 2, a ~8,400-year-old individual from Qihe Cave, Fujian, China. Credit: FAN Xuechun New ancient genomic research reveals information about human history in…
Looking out at the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain from the cave entrance at the Pinnacle Point, South Africa, research site–left, 200,000 years ago during glacial phases and…
An illustration of Calcaivis, an early relative of ostriches and cassowaries that lived 52 million years ago, showing its iridescent feathers. Credit: Velizar Simeonovski Cassowaries…
Stone artifacts from the Initial Upper Paleolithic at Bacho Kiro Cave: 1-3, 5-7 Pointed blades and fragments from Layer I; 4 Sandstone bead with morphology…
Artistic restoration of Deinonychus antirrhopus. Credit: Fred Wierum Turns out, you really can’t believe everything you see in the movies. A new University of Wisconsin…
The image was drawn from a complete, 3-dimensional fossil discovered in Madagascar. The unusually large mammal, named Adalatherium, is part of a group of mammals…
Life-like reconstruction of Adalatherium hui from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Credit: ©Denver Museum of Nature & Science/Andrey Atuchin International team of researchers, led by…
Two Spinosaurus hunt Onchopristis, a prehistoric sawfish, in the waters of the Kem Kem river system in what is now Morocco. Credit: Jason Treat, NG…
Predators abound on land, in the air and in water some 95 million years on the shores of northern Africa — as shown by the…
Predator paradise — The giant predatory dinosaur Carcharodontosaurus eyes a group of Elosuchus — crocodile-like hunters — near a carcass. Credit: Artwork by Davide Bonadonna…
Visualizations of brain endocasts (blue) from the skulls of a dinosaur and a modern bird. Credit: Image courtesy of WitmerLab at Ohio University International team…
A Homo erectus skullcap found northwest of Johannesburg in South Africa has been identified as the oldest to date, in research published in Science. The…