Category: Ancient

Fossil has been unveiled at the National Museum of Scotland. 170 million-year-old fossil of flying reptile unveiled The most important pterodactyl fossil find in Britain in around 200 years has been put on display for the first time. It dates back more than 170 million years and has been described as the “discovery of the…

They were the largest animals to ever walk the Earth: sauropods, a dinosaur clade of such immense size and stature, they’re sometimes dubbed ‘thunder lizards’. These towering hulks – including Brontosaurus, Brachiosaurus, and Diplodocus among others – needed four thick, powerful legs to support and transport their massive bodies. At least, most of the time.…

The well-preserved tracks were left in the silt by a species of bird that would have made even today’s ostriches seem tame. Standing up to 3 meters in height and sporting razor-sharp claws as well as a beak capable of piercing a human’s skull, terror birds were a group of enormous predatory flightless birds which…

Paleontologists have been excavating the Pipestone Creek bonebed since the 1970s A photo of the dinosaur bonebed site near Pipestone Creek, west of Grande Prairie Alta., taken on June 22. (Submitted by Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum) Paleontologists have excavated more bones from a site near Grande Prairie, Alta., that will help provide a glimpse…

The extreme weather in Texas has left about 70 tracks exposed in Dinosaur Valley State Park, and experts believe some of them belong to a massive 60ft-tall Paluxysaurus One of the longest dinosaur tracks in the world has been exposed in the United States thanks to a drought. Footprints thought to date back a staggering…

The extraordinarily well-preserved bison likely died around 8,000 years ago — and experts hope they can use its DNA to revive the extinct species. In the summer of 2022, the remains of an extinct species of bison were unearthed in the Khaastaakh district of Russia’s Verkhoyansk region. The creature was so impeccably preserved in the Siberian…

The giant caiman known as Purussaurus was the apex predator of the Miocene epoch as it stalked the wetlands of South America, equipped with the strongest bite of any creature to ever live. Pinterest/Velizar SimeonovskiPurussaurus was so enormous that its head alone was larger than the entire bodies of today’s caimans. Creatures beyond our wildest…

This is an artist’s impression of Ulughbegsaurus uzbekistanensis, an apex predator that lived in Central Asia about 90 million years ago. Scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of predatory dinosaur with shark-like teeth that would have been the T. rex of its day. It belongs to family of dinosaurs known as carcharodontosaurs, best known…

A full set of teeth in the fossil’s upper jaw were found, along with fragments of hip and skull bones. It was in Hell Creek that researchers from the University of Kansas recently stumbled on the remains of a young Tyrannosaurus rex—they think. “We just set off prospecting and a student came across some bone…

  The ancient world harbors mysteries that continue to captivate scientists and enthusiasts alike. Among these enigmatic wonders are ammonites, marine mollusks that once gracefully navigated prehistoric oceans.   While their spiral shells have long fascinated paleontologists, the intricate and mesmerizing growth pattern of the ammonite septum adds a layer of complexity to their evolutionary…