A team of scientists has found that the prehistoric ancestors of crocodiles were prevented from evolving into ... Over the course of the 10 million years, it took cetaceans to evolve from ...

Get ready to unearth a land before time! Edelman Fossil Park & Museum of Rowan University is set to open its doors in March ...

All crocodiles, caimans and alligators are ancient species, and they look the part. But one species of crocodilian — the gharial, sometimes called a gavial — beats them all in the prehistoric ... to ...

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BOULDER, Colo. — Paleontologists recently discovered a rare mammal fossil in western Colorado. It's a genus of mammal that ...

Some species of animals, insects and vegetation have gone extinct, difficult to be replaced and there are no chances to evolve over again. Reckless country planning and implicit land conversions ...

A new study reveals that a prehistoric sea cow was preyed upon by two different carnivores: a crocodile and a shark. Furthermore, this amazing finding sheds light on ancient predation patterns. Let’s ...

From the formation of inner ear bones to the rise of hair to cover our bodies, these developments made us distinct from other ...

The discovery in the Valtellina Orobie mountain range in Lombardy dates back 280 million years to the Permian period, the age immediately prior to dinosaurs, ...

"The Grand Canyon is an epic Rosetta Stone for geology," Denver Museum of Nature and Science geologist James Hagadorn said.

The nether world, the underground, has been a space of curiosity, myth and imagination, whether cast as Hell or as a site of ...

Imagine a world where continents are fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it is on the brink of ...