Anacondas Reached Their Enormous Size 12 Million Years Ago and Never Looked Back » Explorersweb
For as long as humans have known them, anacondas have been giants. The colossal snakes average four to…
Fossil tracks in Italy record a turtle stampede from 80 million years ago
In the spring of 2019, free climbers scaling the risky cliffs of Monte Cònero on Italy’s Adriatic coast…
Meet The 42-Foot Snake That Ruled Earth After The Dinosaurs — A Biologist Explains
About 60 million years ago, long before humans and just after the dinosaurs vanished, a giant snake rose…
Fossils Reveal the Green Anaconda Has Been a Giant For 12 Million Years
Nowadays, anacondas are usually four to five meters long, but they can reach seven meters. Credit: Andres Alfonso-Rojas…
Anacondas Are the Rare Prehistoric Giants That Never Shrank, Ssssstudy Reveals
During the Middle to Upper Miocene period (12.4 to 5.3 million years ago), giant animals walked—and slithered—the Earth…
Dinosaur eggshells are accurate timekeepers of fossil age, study finds
Layers of rock can tell the story of life on Earth, but only if you know when each…
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting
After the cessation of centuries-long eradication efforts throughout Europe, large carnivores have made a remarkable return over the…
Breakup of Ancient Supercontinent Nuna 1.5 Billion Years Ago May Have Created Giant Incubators for Complex Life
Credit: Unsplash/Javier Miranda. From 1.8 billion to 800 million years ago, Earth was seemingly quite a boring place.…
Evidence of Rhino Living in Frigid Arctic Circle 23 Million Years Ago Discovered in New Fossil
Marisa Gilbert (left) and Dr. Danielle Fraser with fossil of Arctic rhino Epiaceratherium itjilik – Canadian Museum of…
New Fossils Show Dinosaurs Were Thriving Until the Final Asteroid Strike
Alamosaurus fossils show southern dinosaurs differed from same-age northern species in Montana and Wyoming. Credit: Natalia Jagielska A…
Meet the Weirdly Wonderful ‘Frosty’ Rhino That Once Roamed the Canadian Arctic
When you think of rhinoceroses, chances are you think of regions like Africa and Asia, not North America.…
A Plant-Eating Croc? Newly Identified Species Demonstrates Crocodilian Versatility
Illustration by Dane Johnson, Museum of the Rockies – released to the press Measuring no more than 2…