Category: Facts

Cretaceous Period, in geologic time, the last of the three periods of the Mesozoic Era. The Cretaceous began 145.0 million years ago and ended 66 million years ago; it followed the Jurassic Period and was succeeded by the Paleogene Period (the first of the two periods into which the Tertiary Period was divided). The Cretaceous is the longest period of the  Phanerozoic Eon. […]

Ceratosaurus Facts Ceratosaurus popped up in Jurassic Park III at one point – but what do we know about the dinosaur? Below you will find 10 Ceratosaurus Facts Facts. Like a ’56 T-Bird parked in a car park full of hybrids, Ceratosaurus shared its range with several less-archaic carnivores. This primitive predator really stands out in films and in […]

Paleontologists have discovered the microscopic fossilized remains of green seaweed near Dalian in the Liaoning province of northern China. The microfossils are approximately one billion years old. They represent a previously unknown species of green seaweed, named Proterocladus antiquus, and are barely visible to the naked eyed at 2 mm in length, or roughly the size […]

Paleozoic Era The Paleozoic Era, which ran from about 542 million years ago to 251 million years ago, was a time of great change on Earth. The era began with the breakup of one supercontinent and the formation of another. Plants became widespread. And the first vertebrate animals colonized land. Life in the Paleozoic Era […]

A fossil site in Canada has yielded the heaviest Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever found—an animal that weighed an estimated 19,500 pounds in life, far heftier than most elephants alive today. The dinosaur, unveiled last week in The Anatomical Record, consists of a skeleton that’s about 65 percent complete, including the skull and hips along with some of its ribs, […]

Rodrigo Müller was working a block of rock and dirt at the base of Agudo Hill, an hour from Porto Alegre, when he first saw an unusual set of osteoderms, bony deposits that form plates on the skin of a reptile or amphibian. “It was a surprise, because we had never seen anything like this […]

A previously unknown species of carnivorous dinosaur has just been revealed to the public inside the echoing halls at the Natural History Museum of Utah. Paleontologists are thrilled to have now identified this older dino relative of the fearsome Allosaurus fragilis (the official state fossil) that once roamed the arid flood plains of what’s now known as the Morrison Formation in […]

Years of human interference and negligence on this planet have interrupted the natural processes of the earth. Processes which restore, repair and sustain the resources and systems essential to the continued health of the many inhabitants of the planet are not functioning as they were intended. These interruptions of the natural cycles and resources have […]

A series of Dimetrodon footprints found in May in P.E.I. National Park near Cavendish have been confirmed as those of the sail-backed Bathygnathus borealis, more commonly known as dimetrodon. Laura MacNeil, who has a background in geology, discovered the footprints while searching for fossils in the area.  It was about the size of my hand and it almost looked like […]

Just hours after it was revealed some bones in an old drawer in East Sussex belonged to Britain’s earliest rabbit, some more old bones found in a drawer in Kenya have put that find to shame, as they turned out to be fossils from a new species of meat-eating mammal larger than any big cat stalking the world today, Fossils of ‘Lion’ […]