There were seven species of true saber-toothed cats who once roamed the Earth. There were dozens of so-called “false saber-toothed…
Pakicetus may not look like a whale when you look at a picture of one. They have legs, for one…
Sirenians, sometimes called sea cows, are the order of mammals to which manatees and dugongs belong. They live in coastal…
Dinosaurs have amazed and entranced us since we first discovered them nearly 200 years ago. Let’s take a look at…
Rhamphorhynchus was a long-tailed pterosaur who lived 150 million years ago. The name Rhamphorhynchus translates to “beak snout”. It was…
1. The Fly Fake Experts of fly evolutionary history were actually glad that this first one was a hoax. In…
Dunkleosteus terrelli was one of the largest fish in the ocean, as large as an elephant, and the largest of…
Paleontology as a science has only formally been around since the 1700s. Philosophers and scientists have been noticing signs for…
Kelenken was a large bird (part of the “terror bird” group and the largest of all of them) from South…
Thylacosmilus lived in South America 9 million years ago and was a saber-toothed metatherian. What is a metatherian? Metatherians largely…