A newly discovered dolphin species from 22 million years ago shows evidence of early echolocation, akin to modern dolphins' ...
A team of researchers led by SNSB paleontologist Gertrud Rößner has discovered a new prehistoric dolphin species. Analyses of ...
The mostly flightless, meat-eating dinosaur descendents were the size of dogs at their smallest, but the largest known ...
As the Earth faces unprecedented climate change, a look into the planet's deep past may provide vital insights into what may ...
Analyzing a leg bone from a fossil site in Colombia, scientists have identified a massive “terror bird” that lived about 12 ...
Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct ...
The bone, described two decades after its discovery, suggests the species might have grown up to 20 percent bigger than other ...
The fossilized leg bone of a giant “terror bird” discovered in Colombia provides new insights into ancient South American ecosystems, suggesting the bird was a major predator in a once-lush region ...
The site, known as the Quebrada Honda Basin (QHB) in the Andes mountains in southern Bolivia, encompasses a time period 13 million years ago during the Miocene Epoch. During the Miocene, the Earth's ...
While past terror bird fossils placed the meat-eating birds at 3 to 9 feet tall, new findings suggest that some were even ...
Phorusrhacid birds, better known as "terror birds," were some of the most impressive predators to ever walk the Earth.