A team of paleontologists has excavated the tooth of an extinct mammal, a contemporary of the Arctic dinosaurs, from a Cretaceous coniferous forest. It is the only known trace of such a small mammal adapted to the climate of the high latitudes of this geological era....
(Artist’s conception: SMU) Think of large, plant-eating dinosaurs, and the setting that comes to mind is likely an ancient tropical swamp, not a coastal environment that is akin America’s Pacific Northwest. That, though, appears precisely to have been the type...
Hadrosaurs like the one pictured here were one of several groups that occurred in Alaska during the Late Cretaceous. The large herbivores probably lived in herds and liked the conditions prevailing at that time. Image: Masato Hattori, CC BY-SA 3.0 via WikiCommons The...
The new dinosaur species Stegouros elengassen lived 74 million years ago in what is now Patagonia, which was part of the megacontinent Gondwana. Illustration: Mauricio Álvarez Chile is not exactly known for numerous dinosaur finds – at least not yet. The first...
The geological structures of Greenland are remarkable and a treasure chest for scientists. Because on the island the history of the earth is almost like an illustrated book and lets you look far into the past. Picture: Michael Wenger Greenland is the epitome of the...