NEWS: FOSSILS/EARTH/COSMOS
Rare Find: Three New Dinosaurs From Australia
Australia has historically not been a great place to find dinosaur skeletons. In fact, it's been almost 30 years since the last large skeleton was discovered, making the recent finding of three new di...Read More
Flute Belonged to Early Humans
New evidence shows humans ancestors from 30,000 years ago were musically proficient. Three flutes from this time period were recently recovered from a cave in Germany. One of the flutes was made from ...Read More
Jurassic Dino Provides Clues to Bird Wing Evolution
A team lead by Chinese paleontologist Xing XU has announced a new dinosaur skeleton from the Gobi Desert. The 155 million year old skeleton may be a link between dinosaurs and birds. S...Read More
Hobbit-Like Human Ancestor Found
In 2004 scientists discovered a small human ancestor on the Indonesian island of Flores. The remains dated about 12,000 years old. Debate has raged about the position of this species in the human fami...Read More
Evolution Can Occur in Less Than Ten Years
How fast can evolution take place? In just a few years, according to a new study on guppies led by UC Riverside’s Swanne Gordon, a graduate student in biology. Gordon and her colleagues...Read More
Gigantic Trilobite Fossils Found in Portugal
Scientists recently announced the discovery of the largest Trilobites ever seen. Trilobites were primitive marine arthropods distantly related to modern-day horseshoe crabs. They lived for millions of...Read More
For the first time, scientists have mapped most of the genetic code of an extinct animal. Researchers from Penn State University today announced they have decoded about eighty percent of the woolly ma...Read More
Jurassic Dinosaur Had Feathers for Display, Not Flight
A newly described dinosaur fossil found in Mongolia by Chinese paleontologists has an odd mix of attributes. The skeleton is clearly that of a small dinosaur, but like many other recent finds from the...Read More
Glacial Cycles May Be Tied To Ice Sheets
In recent geologic time, Earth's climate ebbs and flows in predictable 100,000 year cycles. But before 2.7 million years ago, these cycles came and went in less than half that time. New...Read More
The Poison of Evolution: Snake Fangs
One of the greatest strengths of the evolutionary model is its ability to explain puzzles of animal development. Snake fangs are the latest example of a longstanding question that has succumbed to the...Read More
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Dino Field Guide: Tyrannosaurus rex
Tons of information about Tyrannosaurus rex, the king of dinosaurs.
Dino Field Guide: Velociraptor
Learn all about Velociraptor, the "killing-claw" predator.
Check out these news stories from the original prehistoricplanet.com. Stories date from 2003 and earlier.
Suchomimus: The dinosaur with a Crocodile Skull
Suchomimus was a cousin to Spinosaurus, the dinosaur of Jurassic Park fame. Both animals had unusually long skulls with jaws full of teeth. Paleontologist Paul Sereno lead a team to Africa where they uncovered a Suchomimus skeleton.
Journey back in time with natural history artist Karen Carr. Her work includes dinosaur and ice age animal paintings and can be seen in world-famous natural history museums.
Rock Layers: Timeline of Life on Earth
Evolution is a complicated subject. While everybody understands that black bears are related to grizzly bears and we can even figure they are related to extinct bears, lots of people wonder how sc...Read More
Your Very Own Time Machine: Buying Your First Telescope Yes, telescopes let you literally see back in time. From light years in the case of the nearest stars, to millions and b...Read More
