The “Thunder beast” fossils, also known as Brontotheres, are an extinct group of large herbivorous mammals that lived in North America during the Eocene epoch, around 56 to 33.9 million years ago. New research on these fossils is shedding light on how some mammals might have evolved to be so Read more…
Scientists have found a piece of the puzzle that could decipher Gibbons’s evolutionary track. They have got an answer from the pre-historic remains of the species (a partial upper jaw and seven isolated teeth) that were accidentally found in a village in southwestern China by a local villager. Paleoanthropologist Xueping Read more…
Reptile Evolution : 250 million years ago, mother nature decided to wipe her slate clean for the Triassic reptiles that ruled the era. The big mass extinction paved way for some lucky creatures that survived the global-scale catastrophe to accelerate their rate of evolution and create a whole new ecology. Read more…
Dragon Man : Paleoanthropologists found a fossilized skull of a new human species which may be our closest ancestor than Neandertals. The fossil is the remains of a male nicknamed ‘Dragon Man’ and does not belong to any Homo species previously known. The research report was published in The Innovation. Read more…