Tag Archives: Paleontologist

Paleontologists have unearthed a nearly complete fossil of a dimetrodon, a reptile-like predator that roamed the Permian landscape 287 million years ago. This weekend, the team is working to transport the 400-pound animal’s torso from its resting place in north Texas to Houston, where the fossil will be prepped for display in the newly renovated Houston Museum of Natural Science ... Read More »

Researchers have found fossilized remains of ancient penguins in Peru. Researchers have found that they used to be 5-feet tall and their ‘tuxedo’ may have been reddish-brown and gray. The first thing the graduate student saw was a set of foot bones at the surface of an excavation site in Peru. He turned over a rock and noticed a pattern ... Read More »

Two new Species of dinosaurs that roamed our Earth more than 65 billion years ago has been found in southern Utah The discovery of the new plant-eating species along with “Kosmoceratops richardsoni” earlier discovery,was considered the most ornate-headed dinosaur known to man . It was  reported Wednesday in the online scientific journal PLoS ONE, produced by the Public Library of ... Read More »

A turtle which was considered to be extinct almost 50000 years ago has left behind his skeleton to let the researches know that we also lived here! This turtle was 11 feet long and 7 feet wide. Holy cow, this is huge. The researches are trying to conclude that the date which was fixed for the extinction of the turtle ... Read More »