Browsing: Fossils

Tracking the Cambrian Explosion, when the oceans first filled with complex animal life.

Bony plates? Check. Cartilaginous duck bill? You bet.

Ancient rhinos were basically magic.

Dinos got dandruff, too.

Australia has always had the market cornered on enormous animals trying to kill you

And it almost became a piece of jewelry

An “eye-watering” 40-inch coprolite

A new dinosaur found in China may be the oldest of its kind–and a crucial link between lizard-like dinosaurs and…

Two days ago, the whole world was teeming with excitement, after some NASA researchers reported finding traces of alien life in meteorites; now, even their employer distances itself from them, and the whole scientific world seems to frown upon this work. However, in what is a very unusual move, NASA has denied any involvement with […]

It was more than 300 million years ago that reptiles made tracks on earth. The exact moment when this happened is unknown, however; oh, and by exact moment, I’m talking about pinning it down to a couple million years (you gotta love geologists for their sense of time). So, a discovery of fossilized footprints was […]