The Predator That Returned Too Quickly
The Predator That Returned Too Quickly Approximately 252 million years ago, life on Earth experienced its most devastating known extinction…
Science Mystery
A Fossil That Refuses to Fit
A Fossil That Refuses to Fit Some prehistoric animals become famous because they were enormous. Others become famous because their…
The Claw That Revealed a Giant
The Claw That Revealed a Giant A fossil discovered in Germany changed the scale of one of Earth’s strangest extinct…
A Whale with the Wrong Kind of Smile
A Whale with the Wrong Kind of Smile Modern sperm whales are already difficult to imagine at full scale. Adult…
The Dragon That Did Not Need Wings: Megalania
The Dragon That Did Not Need Wings: Megalania Australia’s prehistoric landscapes contained animals that would feel almost fictional today. Giant…
The Giant from the Coal Forest: Arthropleura
The Giant from the Coal Forest: Arthropleura More than 300 million years ago, long before dinosaurs appeared, something enormous moved…
The Danger Beneath the Surface: Deinosuchus
The Danger Beneath the Surface: Deinosuchus When people imagine the most dangerous predators of the dinosaur age, they usually picture…
The Ancient Fish with a “Circular Saw” Mouth
The Ancient Fish with a “Circular Saw” Mouth Long before dinosaurs ruled the Earth, a strange predator cruised the prehistoric…
The object that did not look important at first
The object that did not look important at first In 1901, divers recovering artefacts from an ancient shipwreck near the…
A monster snake hiding inside a coal mine
A monster snake hiding inside a coal mine The fossil was not discovered in a jungle. It was found inside…