Palaeontology

Trace fossil of an animal that may have lived on a mudflat during the Cambrian Period Giovanni Mussini Animals living …

Illustration of two sparring megalodons Clarence “Shoe” Schumaker, Courtesy of the Calvert Marine Museum Several fossil teeth from the giant …

Skeleton of the new plesiosaur at the Urwelt-Museum Hauff in Holzmaden, Germany Klaus Nilkens/Urwelt-Museum Hauff The soft tissue of a …

In the Pleistocene Epoch, South America was home to now-extinct animals, including the sabre-toothed cat Smilodon, the giant ground sloth …

Artist’s impression of Carinodens, a mosasaur whose remains scientists suspect might have been manipulated and then labelled as a new …