Picture a world where the first coastlines are raw and empty, yet the seas churn with strange life that looks equal parts alien and beautiful. The Cambrian Period, more than half a billion years ago, was the stage for life’s grand opening act, when animal bodies diversified at a dizzying pace. People often think of ...
On a vanished island in what’s now Romania, a shadow once skimmed the ground – wider than a city bus and armed with a beak built like a crowbar. That shadow belonged to Hatzegopteryx, a colossal azhdarchid pterosaur that lived at the very end of the Cretaceous, roughly sixty-six million years ago. Its story reads ...
Volcanic ash, ancient teeth, and a “rhino Pompeii” reveal the chilling fate of prehistoric giants and rewrite what we know about herd behavior. A Prehistoric Mass Grave—And the Mystery That Baffled Experts In 1971, paleontologists in northeast Nebraska stumbled upon a scene straight out of a disaster movie: hundreds of fossilized rhinos, horses, and camels ...
