In the blazing heat of an Australian summer in 2017, paleontologists were scraping away ancient rock in the Winton Formation of Queensland when they stumbled upon something that would electrify…
Category: Paleontology & Prehistoric Life
Mastodons Once Fed the Forests and Their Ghosts Still Haunt the Seeds
Ten thousand years ago, in the shadowy forests and plains of South America, vast beasts lumbered beneath the canopy. Among them was Notiomastodon platensis, a close cousin of elephants, whose…
Oldest Flying Reptile in North America Discovered in Petrified Forest’s Hidden Bonebed
In the remote, sunburned badlands of Petrified Forest National Park, where ancient rocks lie scattered like forgotten ruins and time itself seems fossilized into the earth, a team of scientists…
New Radiodont Species Mosura fentoni Discovered in the Burgess Shale
More than half a billion years ago, long before the rise of dinosaurs, mammals, or even fish with jaws, the oceans teemed with strange and alien creatures. Among them was…
Late Cretaceous Dinosaur Teeth Discovered in Northeast China’s Nenjiang Formation
In the dusty upper layers of northeastern China’s Nenjiang Formation, twelve isolated but revelatory relics of a lost world have been unearthed—fossilized teeth that once lined the jaws of thunderous…