"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 ...

Paleontologists with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History have discovered a previously unknown prehistoric species — a 270 million-year-old amphibian with wide eyes and a cartoonish grin ...

On both page and screen, we're used to seeing dinosaurs and prehistoric birds as vibrant creatures exhibiting unique and ...

A new species of prehistoric fish was found in iron-rich stone in southeastern Australia. Screengrab from Australia Museum's video What can fossils tell us about prehistoric life? The length of a ...

(CNN) — Paleontologists with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History have discovered a previously unknown prehistoric species — a 270 million-year-old amphibian with wide eyes and a ...

Fossils found in scrap sandstone originally meant to discarded revealed a new species in Brazil. Shared by Daniel Martins dos Santos The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI tools and ...

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For millions of years, Earth was the planet of reptiles. Giant flying reptiles controlled the skies while massive dinosaurs were kings of the land. Other prehistoric animals, however, may not have had ...

A new species of prehistoric fish was found in iron-rich stone in southeastern Australia. Screengrab from Australian Museum's video What can fossils tell us about prehistoric life? The length of a ...