The Oldest Plant-Eating Dinosaur Has Been Found in India Researchers say the find highlights how much more there is to learn about Earth’s prehistory with fossil digs on the subcontinent.
Ancient Fires Drove Sabertooth Cats and Other Large Mammals Extinct, Study Suggests Fossils from La Brea Tar Pits in Southern California suggest that sabertooth cats and other large North American mammals disappeared as a result of wildfires spurred by human activity.
This Ancient Whale May Have Been the Heaviest Animal Ever Perucetus drifted through shallow seas like a gigantic manatee, scientists suspect.
505-Million-Year-Old Jellyfish Fossils May Be the Oldest Ever Found The specimens are evidence of how little the squishy, tentacled predators have changed over the history of life on Earth.
This Fossil Is a Freeze-Frame of a Mammal Fighting a Dinosaur It’s like a man-bites-dog story from prehistoric times, although researchers had to take steps to verify that it was not a forgery.