Hippos thrived in central Europe 40,000 years ago, fossils reveal - Findings point to Upper Rhine fossil deposits as an ...

"In the world of paleontology, anything this unusual is important and we feel privileged to be able to interpret them," the ...

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a ...

Analysis of bone finds shows the heat-loving semi-aquatic mammals inhabited part of present-day Germany around 47,000 to ...

The La Brea Tar Pits are a group of natural asphalt pools in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. In the middle of ...

Newtonsaurus cambrensis is very large, larger than most, if not all, contemporary predators. For a therapod dinosaur from the Triassic era to be so large is essentially unprecedented. Scientists in ...

Hippos are now seen only in sub-Saharan Africa, but new research reveals that these giant, water-loving animals lived in ...

Dinosaur stories are often written for children, with a cast of neon cartoon characters or animatronic models. But for adults who never outgrew their fossil fascination, the Canadian province of ...

Fossils found in Nikiti, Greece, suggest that early hominins may have lived in Europe millions of years before they appeared in Africa. The Nikiti ape, dated to around 7 million years ago, shows ...

Fossils found in a riverbed in Japan were revealed as a large, ancient ancestor of right whales. Tanaka, et al (2025) Palaeontologia Electronica The largest animal thought to ever live is swimming ...

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Paleontologists in Argentina have discovered a new predatory dinosaur -- the fossils of which contained a crocodile bone within the dinosaur's mouth.