After the extinction of dinosaurs came the age of mammals. A new book brings readers into this world with well-researched species profiles by Aaron Woodruff, collection manager for vertebrate ...

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The legacy of "sea dogs" has welcomed two more chapters. Two new species of prehistoric sharks have been discovered by experts in the deep geological layers of the USA, according to Daily Galaxy. They ...

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Millions of years ago, a large herbivore walked through an ancient valley and snacked on vegetation. The land would later become the Iberian Peninsula, and the valley the creature stood would be ...

A 98-million-year-old discovery has given Oscar Piastri a rather unique kind of immortality, and his reaction says it all.

"Prehistoric World" is a new book by Aaron Woodruff, the museum's collection manager for vertebrate paleontology. It includes profiles and illustrations of prehistoric mammals such as Livyatan ...

(CNN) — Paleontologists with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History have discovered a previously unknown prehistoric species — a 270 million-year-old amphibian with wide eyes and a ...