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....
The reconstruction of the two newly described penguin species illustrates the size of the giant penguin Kumimanu fordycei versus the much smaller Petradyptes stonehousei. Image: Simone Giovanardi One of two species of prehistoric penguins newly discovered in New...
A 26,000-year-old mammoth skeleton found on Russia’s Kotelny Island off the coast of Yakutia provides new insights into the distribution of humans during the Paleolithic period. Image: Wikimedia Commons After the remains of a woolly mammoth were found on Kotelny...
The fossils found are reportedly very similar to the skeletons of horn sponges, such as Chelonaplysilla violacea. Photo: Philippe Bourbon, Creative Commons 3.0 Separate The Cambrian Explosion is generally regarded as the kickoff for animal life, the evolution of which...
Blue whales are the largest animals known to have existed, weighing up to 200 tons. With their rather coarsely bristled baleen, they filter the smallest animals such as krill and copepods from the seawater. In summer, a blue whale devours an estimated 40 million of...