Titanoboa, a Paleogene Period 40-Foot Long Snake
A new fossil of an extraordinarily large snake was discovered in the lowland tropics of northern Colombia, 60 miles from the Caribbean coast in Cerrejón….
Paleobotany
Pleistocene-Era Plant Revived from Siberian Permafrost
A team of scientists claim that they’ve revived a plant from the Pleistocene era, which lived 32,000 to 28,000 years ago. Silene stenophylla was revived…
Scientists Reconstruct Ancient Permian Ecosystem from Ash-Covered Plants
Paleoecologists have reconstructed a Permian-era swampy forest, filled with long-extinct plant species, thanks to analyses of well-preserved fossils entombed in a layer of volcanic ash…