Category: Prehistoric Earth
Pecking order: Meet the biggest bird to ever walk the Earth
Around 500,000 to 1,000,000 years ago, a massive bird roamed the woodlands and forests of prehistoric Madagascar, unaware of the…
Yabba-dabba-brew! Bedrock brewers crafted beer 13,000 years ago
Think craft beer is a “millennial” or new-age “hipster” thing? Science says (in ironically hipster fashion) that our Eastern Mediterranean…
Museum-worthy: This 73,000-year-old drawing is the oldest ever found
Ever feel like you’re such a terrible artist? If your sketches had been 73,000 years earlier, they could have earned…
Russia aims to clone woolly mammoth, other extinct Ice Age species
Various online publications are calling it a “Russian Jurassic Park” — but it’s actually much more than that. Russia is…
Can extinct species be brought back to life?
Nearly 15 years ago, for 10 glorious minutes, science fiction became a living, breathing reality. On July 30, 2003, scientists…
This horseshoe crab fossil looks like Darth Vader’s helmet
Think horseshoe crabs are nothing more than boring, cockroach-like critters? If Vaderlimulus tricki were alive today, it would definitely find your lack…
This ancient crocodile terrorized the Jurassic seas
A study published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology sheds new light on the prehistoric origins of modern crocodiles. A recent…
Set in stone: Oldest signs of life in 3.95 billion-year-old rocks?
According to researchers from Japan, a 3.95-billion-year-old discovery in northern Labrador in Canada will “rock” prehistory to its core. The…
See “Dinosaurs Around the World” at the Mind Museum
Did dinosaurs really move and behave the way they do on the silver screen? Were there ever any dinosaurs in…
New tree species discovered through 100-million-year-old flowers
Picture this: 100 million years ago in prehistoric Myanmar, a large animal trudged through a pine forest, dislodging a few…
