Paraceratherium was a rhinoceros that lived around 20 million years ago. Standing tall with a longer neck, it doesn't much resemble a modern rhinoceros. The 15-20 ton giant is the subject of a new book by paleontologist...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/08/The-26-foot-Long-Rhino/
What do paleontologists think about the movie Jurassic Park? Like most professionals seeing a movie that's close to home, they spot a lot of inaccuracies, but are overall pleased to have a movie about their subject. Pale...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/06/The-Most-Ridiculous-Scene-in-Jurassic-Park/
Paleontologists in China have discovered ancient ancestors of birds that had both front and rear wings.Modern birds generally work with two wings, using small, clawed hind legs for ground travel. A few, like the golden e...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/18/Fossil-Birds-with-Four-Wings/
There has been a great deal of speculation over the years and substantial evidence that an asteroid is likely what extinguished all dinosaur life. Science could never prove what asteroid may have triggered the extinction...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/09/Scientists-Finally-Confirm-the-Asteroid-that-Killed-the-Dinosaurs/
A fossil uncovered in Africa over 70 years ago has led to modern researchers identifying what was likely the earliest dinosaur, Nyasasaurus parringtoni. In the 1930s, Rex Carringon, a fossil hunter from Cambridge, first...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/19/Fossils-of-the-Earliest-Dinosaur/
A fossil species of the human family called Australopithecus sediba is a fairly recent discovery. Some of the two-million-year-old individuals unearthed in Africa have tartar on their teeth, which is rare among primate f...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/02/early-human-relatives-ate-bark/
These shell backed lovers were fossilized while doing the nasty around 47 million years ago, and now have the distinction of being the only vertebrate fossils ever found frozen in the act of making love. The mating co...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/22/fossilized-copulating-turtle-couple-discovered-in-germany/
Scientists have been speculating and arguing about when hominids mastered the art of producing fire for a long time. Estimates ranged from a few hundred thousands years ago to two million years ago. But now hard evidence...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/07/humans-made-fire-earlier-than-we-thought/
Chinese paleontologist Xing Xu and colleagues have published their description of a new dinosaur species today, which might be the largest feathered animal ever. It's an early version of a T. rex they named Yutyrannus hu...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/04/yutyrannus-the-feathered-tyrannosaur/
Human bones belonging to at least five individuals have been found at Red Deer Cave in Yunnan Province and at Longlin in Guangxi Province in China. They are fairly recent, dating to between 11,500 and 14,500 years ago. B...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/15/red-deer-cave-people-may-be-new-species/
