Medicine & TechnologyThe first fossils of ichthyosaurs discovered were only about the size of a dog, but recent research reported that these swimmers grew quickly and even surpassed whales making them the first giants of Earth.
In early 2021, one paleontologist was asked if it would be possible for the dinosaurs' DNA to be used to recreate them. The first major problem would be getting the DNA, s it is inclined to deteriorate and eventually disintegrate, after approximately seven million years.
Archaeologists believed that the site where they unearthed remains of mammoths at a quarry near Swindon and spotted a Neanderthal ax was a massive buffet 250,000 years ago.
Scientists have recently identified a dinosaur skeleton, specifically, a duck-billed dinosaur called Parrosaurus missouriensis which they claim belongs to the Hadrosauridae family.
Researchers, which include a University of Tsukuba member, have applied in a recently published research a gene sequencing type called transcriptomics to reconstruct the insect order Odana's phylogeny.
A new ancient human species called Homo Bodoenis has been discovered recently in Africa and now, researchers are hoping this new find will bring some clarity to this period, during which the evolution of humans is poorly understood.
The 12,000-year-old mastodon tooth that six-year-old Julian Gagnon found while hiking with his family is now in the care of the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology.
Paleontologists recently announced the discovery of two new dinosaur species, with the predatory creatures said to have roamed the south of England about 125 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous Period.
Divers discovered another mammoth fossil in Florida, specifically a mammoth leg bone. It was found in the prehistoric river which the discoverers believe was a shallow one.
A photo of the prehistoric monster snake called Titanoboa, which is estimated to have been an astonishing 42.5 feet in length, is circulating online. But the said photo of the fossil is not real, because it is only a model.
Researchers have uncovered perfectly preserved fossils of giant rhinos in the Gansu province of northwestern China. Reconstructing the animal's anatomy showed that fossils came from a new species of giant rhinos, the largest mammals to ever walk the Earth.
A re-analysis of the fossils once touted as the world's smallest dinosaur trapped in amber in Myanmar showed that the remains belonged to a mystery small lizard and not of a bird.
Pandemic paleontology means doing all the preparations and analyses of excavated samples at home. Meaning, even this global health crisis did not stop paleontologists from doing their job.