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Giant camels used to roam what’s now Los Angeles. If you visit the city’s La Brea asphalt seeps, you can see their bones, ...
Mammoths were not the only enormous beasts ancient humans hunted. Elephant ancestors were also on the menu. While analyzing ...
Paleontologist Thaís Pansani standing in front of a reconstructed giant ground sloth skeleton at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. AP SAO PAULO (Associated Press) — Sloths weren’t ...
(BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas) — Paleontologists have found fossilized remains of a giant possum-like mammal that lived 60 million years ago. The fossils, found at Big Bend National Park in Texas, ...
Beneath the surface of a Colombian coal mine, scientists made a discovery so extraordinary that it rewrote what we know about giant reptiles. In 2009, researchers unearthed fossil remains of an ...
Understanding how species survive environmental upheavals is central to evolutionary and conservation science. Southeast Asia ...
The “mighty” new prehistoric whale species was about 40 feet long based on the fossilized bones. Tanaka, et al (2025) Palaeontologia Electronica The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI ...