The now-extinct sea cow species, Salwasiren qatarensis, was discovered thanks to an examination of 21-million-year-old ...

Move over, professional paleontologists - the next generation of fossil hunters has arrived! In a discovery that would make Mary Anning proud, 11-year-old Ruby Reynolds stumbled upon what would turn ...

The story of whales did not begin in the seas. For millions of years before beasts like the sinuous Basilosaurus lived full time in the ocean, the shorelines and estuaries of prehistoric Earth were ...

Today, the Arabian Gulf is home to manatee-like marine mammals called dugongs that shape the seafloor as they graze on seagrasses. A newly described fossil site in Qatar reveals that ancient sea cows ...

"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 ...

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Explores the world of prehistoric mammals, comparing them to their modern descendants. Pop-up sections feature three-dimensional skeletons and some pull tabs.

In the ancient rock formations of Greenland, the tiny tooth of a never-before-seen species was discovered. mahlersilvan via Unsplash Hundreds of millions of years ago, a lake lined with coarse ...

A university student on a fossil-hunting field trip in Dorset made a stunning discovery: a 145-million-year-old jawbone belonging to a previously unknown mammal species with razor-like teeth. With the ...