The Mesozoic wasn’t just the age of dinosaurs. Reptiles of all sorts thrived through the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous at ...

Prehistoric animals once roamed — and ruled — planet Earth. Some of them ... The giant crocs mostly ate sea turtles and shellfish, but sometimes tangled with T. Rex cousins like ...

A groundbreaking study led by Bar-Ilan University reveals that starch-rich plants played a central role in the diet of ...

chipped away at a prehistoric, tropical sea floor that was once a thriving community of the planet’s first animals. The story of the team’s incredible discoveries is told in First Animals ...

Fossils are physical evidence of prehistoric animals and plants. They tell us about the history of our planet, from climate and evolution ... mud or the calcium carbonate shells of sea creatures ...

The animals constantly grew new shell material ... The many chambers of their shells likely helped these cephalopods glide through the planet’s warm, shallow seas. A thin, tubelike structure ...

This is a reconstruction of the prehistoric mammal Spinolestes in the Cretaceous-period ... interacted with other species and their changing environment. The color of an animal’s fur is quite complex ...

4 min read When the Devonian period dawned about 416 million years ago the planet was changing its appearance ... The fossils of these remarkable animals come from the red rocks of Devon.

A research team led by the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW ... also known from other studies—for example for plant seeds or small crustaceans, some of which remain ...