An extinct snake has slithered its way out of obscurity over four decades after its discovery. The newly described species of ...
The rib belonged to a zygorhiza, a toothed whale that lived 34 to 38 million years ago and grew up to 18 feet long. Whale ...
Domning, D. P., Emry, Robert J., Portell, R. W., Donovan, S. K., and Schindler, K. S. 1997. "Oldest West Indian land mammal: Rhinocerotoid ungulate from the Eocene of ...
A 49-foot prehistoric snake, Vasuki indicus, has been discovered in India, rewriting our understanding of ancient reptiles. Living around 47 million y ...
Scientists found the remains of an extinct rhino that lived in the Arctic 23 million years ago. It likely reached there over ...
Today East Asia, and in particular the Hengduan Mountains and other parts of southwestern China, hosts several of Earth's great biodiversity 'hotspots'. A biodiversity hotspot is where very large ...