A Whale That Did Not Hunt Like a Modern Sperm Whale
A Whale That Did Not Hunt Like a Modern Sperm Whale Modern sperm whales are already extraordinary animals. They dive…
A Creature from Before Familiar Animals
A Creature from Before Familiar Animals More than 550 million years ago, Earth’s seafloor contained life forms that remain difficult…
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…
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…
Geometry in the Darkness: The Seafloor Mystery of Paleodictyon
Geometry in the Darkness: The Seafloor Mystery of Paleodictyon The deep ocean is filled with shapes created by life. Worms…
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…