Giraffatitan was discovered in 1906 by Bernhard Wilhelm Sattler in Tanzania, which was under German colonization at the time. Over…
Sometimes a species may seem to go extinct, for decades or even more than a century. Then these species will…
Camptosaurus lived in the late Jurassic Period and early Cretaceous, about 145 to 155 million years ago. The first specimen…
First, I invite you to think of a pig, perhaps a cute baby pig playing in the mud. They’re little,…
Postosuchus was a large reptile who lived approximately 230 million years ago. The first discovery of Postosuchus was in Texas…
We’ve talked here about prehistoric fish and about prehistoric land dwellers, but never about the evolutionary crossover between these two.…
Beelzebufo ampinga has been popularly called the “Devil toad” or the “frog from Hell”, and the name “Beelzebufo” itself even…
Othniel Charles Marsh first discovered Struthiomimus in the late 1800s, and subsequent fossils were discovered in the same location in…
Macrauchenia lived all throughout South America from seven million years ago to as recent as 20,000 years ago, a time…
There were seven species of true saber-toothed cats who once roamed the Earth. There were dozens of so-called “false saber-toothed…