Researchers found the right side of the 50-million-year-old amphisbaenian’s upper jaw and the left side of its lower jaw, according to the study, but while it clearly belonged to this odd reptilian ...
Gold has both economic and cultural significance to human societies but, as Liang Zhang and David Groves explain, we owe its presence in the Earth’s crust to repeating cycles of plate tectonics.
Gigantophis garstini was a massive prehistoric snake from the Eocene epoch, estimated to be around 36 feet (11 meters) long.It lived in what is now Northern Africa and was one of the largest snakes ...
They lived from the Eocene to Pleistocene epochs, which spanned over 50 million to about 11,700 years ago. Not all saber-toothed creatures were felids, or “true cats,” which are the animals we ...