In the blazing heat of an Australian summer in 2017, paleontologists were scraping away ancient…
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…
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…
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…
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…