Museums Are Finding More and More New Species in Their Own Collections: an Example of ‘Museum Mining’
The next great era of paleontology may not actually happen digging in the field, but rather digging through drawers.…
Tag: Paleontology
As Long as a Whale, New Extinct Snake Found in India May Be Largest to Have Ever Slithered the Earth
A giant snake, now thought to have been almost the largest to ever slither the Earth, has been identified…
Was This Primitive Whale the Largest Animal Ever to Live? Scientists Think So
Peru isn’t typically associated with ocean habitat, containing as it does the Andes and the Amazon. However, a beast…
Newly Discovered Giant Carnivore Shows Dinosaurs Like T-Rex Paid for Huge Skulls with Tiny Arms
PICTURED: An artists recreation of Meraxes gigas. PC: Universidad Nacional di Rio Negro. Released. What do we know about…
Fossilized Footprints Show Cretaceous Hunting Dinosaurs Were Fast and Surprisingly Agile
PICTURED: One of the La Torre 6A trackway footprints from La Rioja, Spain. PC: Pablo Navarro-Lorbés. Spanish paleontologists studying…
The ‘Father of Lizards’—Key Missing Descendant of All Modern Lizards Found in Argentina
PICTURED: The most primitive member of lepidosaurs, Taytalura alcoberi. PC: from scientific illustrator Jorge Blanco. The title “Father of…
Rarest-of-the-Rarest Dinosaur Fossil is a Cretaceous Era Still Life of Oviraptor and 24 Eggs
An international team of paleontologists has unearthed the latest fossil in what could be described as a 4-decade-long conveyor…