This tiny, 8-foot long whale swam off Egypt’s coast 41 million years ago
The animal, found in present-day Egypt, was named Tutcetus rayanensis, referring to the pharaoh Tutankhamun.
The animal, found in present-day Egypt, was named Tutcetus rayanensis, referring to the pharaoh Tutankhamun.
The ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ find offers a window into prehistoric Florida and the megafauna that once roamed the Sunshine State.
Swimming dinosaurs are rare in the fossil record, and the main reason might be their buoyant skeletal structures.
UV-B radiation in fossilized pollen grains give a clue to how the end-of-Permian mass extinction went down on Earth.
eDNA, or environmental DNA, has helped reconstruct an entire ecosystem in northern Greenland, dating before the ice ages.
A tiny Triassic fossil first discovered in Scotland belongs to a group of dinosaurs that were only the size of a cat or a small dog.
It’s pretty impossible for a giant, flying, fire-breathing dragon to exist in real life. But dinosaur fossils and modern-day lizards show some similarities.
A prehistoric relative of giant pandas could have been the last panda species in Europe, and one of many to choose a no-bamboo diet.
The fish, named Qikiqtania, is thought to be a relative of Tiktaalik, which climbed out of the water 375 million years ago.
A swamp in Germany may have been a sex death trap for hundreds of frogs and other water-breeding creatures 45 million years ago.