About half a million years ago, several horses, sloths and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in Florida's Big Bend region and ...

Dr. Luis Buatois (Ph.D.) traces a series of hexagons with his finger, following the path carved by tiny organisms millions of ...

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...

The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals.

It’s fun to conceptualise like this, and set the human story within the grand perspective of Earth’s history. But there’s a ...

Krabi: A team of researchers and geologists discovered a number of animal fossils from the Late Pleistocene epoch during a ...

Imagine creatures that have survived since the time of dinosaurs. Species like the tuatara, sturgeon, crocodile, hagfish, ...

With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...

Discover the fascinating story of a sea cow fossil in Venezuela, providing insights into prehistoric marine life and predator ...

Some whittled down to just 30 percent of their original size, an adaptation to increasing temperatures known as the ...

Similarly, most living things produce records of their own existence in layered body tissues – often in the form of daily or ...