Discover the extraordinary prehistoric giants – from mega-sloths to monster sharks – that once made today’s animals look ...

A remarkably small fossil has emerged as the focus of a new scientific investigation into the scale of prehistoric life.

A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from ...

The “mighty” new prehistoric whale species was about 40 feet long based on the fossilized bones. Tanaka, et al (2025) Palaeontologia Electronica The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI ...

Researchers in the Andes of Argentina discovered one of the oldest known dinosaurs as a species new to science. Lucas Fiorelli (CRILAR-CONICET), Martín Hechenleitner (CRILAR-CONICET), and Léa ...

When the remains of prehistoric creatures were discovered in Europe and the United States, it opened up a vociferous debate on the nature of time and the purpose of science. A lithograph illustrating ...

The dinosaur remains are different from the wrapped mummies of Egypt or natural human mummies that get accidentally preserved in bogs or deserts. Mummified dinosaurs are so old that their skin and ...

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