"Prehistoric World" is a new book by Aaron Woodruff, the museum's collection manager for vertebrate paleontology. It includes profiles and illustrations of prehistoric mammals such as Livyatan ...

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A New York homeowner made a remarkable discovery in their backyard last September. The teeth from a complete mastodon jaw were peaking out of the soil. The stunning find near the hamlet of Scotchtown ...

Science nerds the world over were stunned by the revelation of a fossil that shows a “beaked dinosaur” getting chomped by a prehistoric mammal — frozen in time for, like, millions of years? About 125 ...

Long after an animal’s soft tissues have vanished, its skull still carries a blueprint of how it sensed the world. For ...

2001-08-05 04:00:00 PDT Porcupine Cave, Colo.-- Ancient, fingernail-size rodent skulls plucked from the dirt with tweezers are forcing scientists to rethink their assumptions about the arrival of much ...

Recent discoveries have shown that brightly colored crests and eye-catching patterns adorned many dinosaurs. Meanwhile, our earliest mammalian ancestors survived these flamboyant predators by being as ...

1. The age of mammals -- 2. The origin and early evolution of mammals -- 3. Marsupials : pouched mammals -- 4. Placental mammals (Eutheria) -- 5. Xenarthra : sloths ...

A university student on a fossil-hunting field trip in Dorset made a stunning discovery: a 145-million-year-old jawbone belonging to a previously unknown mammal species with razor-like teeth. With the ...

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