A new species of shark has been discovered in Alabama that survived the mass extinction, became one of the ocean’s top predators at that time. (Palaeohypotodus bizzocoi)
Tag: dinosaurs
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs didn’t greatly damage flowering plants
The Chicxulub asteroid that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was found to be generally harmless to flowering plants.
Predators that roamed the Earth millions of years before dinosaurs ‘Pampaphoneus biccai’
More evidence uncovered about Pampaphoneus biccai, the ‘bloodthirsty’ predator that roamed the Earth millions of years before dinosaurs.
Amazing live fossils called triops from the time of the dinosaurs discovered in Arizona
Adar Leibovitch recently photographed a colony of prehistoric triops, that has survived for hundreds of millions of years.
Research shows, the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs also caused a global tsunami
During the Cretaceous era, the Chicxulub asteroid wiped off the dinosaurs and the majority of Earth’s species.
1000 fossilized eggs find in China, the findings provided evidence of dinosaurs’ lack of diversity
In China, 1000 fossilized eggs were found, providing evidence for the hypothesis that the lack of diversity among the dinosaurs may have contributed to their decline and eventual extinction.
The world’s earliest known belly button was found on an early-cretaceous dinosaur
Many of our questions about how they lived and what they were like would be answered if we lived in a world where tourists could travel to a remote island resort and see living dinosaurs — or run for from them, as in Jurassic World. Unfortunately, we must rely on information gleaned from fossil remains preserved in rock tens of millions of years ago.