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Firm announces plan to create world's first Tyrannosaurus rex leather
4-27-2025 |
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In an unexpected twist on efforts to 'de-extinct' prehistoric animals, one firm is seeking to create a unique new type of material.
Terrifying prehistoric parasitic wasp used its butt to snatch victims
4-6-2025 | 2
A horrific insect that lived 99 million years ago had a posterior shaped like a Venus flytrap.
Strange, giant prehistoric towers may have been a totally new form of life
4-2-2025 | 10
Known as Prototaxites, these giant fossilized structures have long proven impossible to properly categorize.
Prehistoric footprints reveal co-existence of two early human relatives
11-30-2024 | 8
Footprints left 1.5 million years ago show that two distinct relatives of modern humans would have co-existed.
Prehistoric predator found in Namibia had toilet seat-shaped head
7-6-2024 | 3
This recently discovered salamander-like apex predator roamed the Earth some 280 million years ago.
Gargantuan prehistoric marine reptile was largest ever to swim in the sea
4-19-2024 | 3
Paleontologists have identified a huge species of ichthyosaur from fossils found on a British beach.
Prehistoric 'Hell chicken' offers hint of Late Cretaceous dinosaur diversity
1-28-2024 | 0
A newly identified species of birdlike dinosaur has offered up a glimpse of life before the asteroid strike.
Real-life 10ft prehistoric 'King Kong' disappeared 215,000 years ago
VIDEO 1-11-2024 | 10
Known as Gigantopithecus blacki, this enormous primate was the largest of its kind ever to walk the Earth.
Prehistoric carnivorous 'terror beast' worm fossils unearthed in Greenland
1-5-2024 | 2
Over 500 million years ago, these huge predatory worms prowled the Cambrian seas.
DNA analysis suggests dire wolves may not have actually been wolves
12-12-2023 | 2
These huge prehistoric carnivores were long thought to be close cousins of the modern day gray wolf.
Skull of colossal prehistoric 'sea monster' found in Dorset cliffs
VIDEO 12-11-2023 | 13
The impressive skull, which measures two meters in length, belonged to a particularly ferocious sea creature.
Fossilized sea creature in Peru may have been heaviest animal ever
8-5-2023 | 3
Palaeontologists have unearthed the fossilized remains of what could be the heaviest creature that ever lived.
Mystery of the Tully monster may have finally been solved
4-17-2023 | 3
The long-running mystery of whether or not this peculiar prehistoric creature was a vertebrate may finally have an answer.
Mystery of weird creature dubbed 'alien goldfish' may have been solved
9-21-2022 | 1
For decades, fossil experts have been perplexed by a totally bizarre prehistoric creature.
Prehistoric 'Swiss Army knife' found across Africa
6-13-2022 | 4
A set of cutting and skinning tools is being hailed as evidence that our ancestors shared knowledge.
Many prehistoric cave paintings were made by children
3-17-2022 | 6
New research has suggested that the process of creating cave paintings may have been a family affair.
A 325-million-year-old octopus has been named after Joe Biden
3-9-2022 | 9
A Carboniferous cephalopod that once roamed the prehistoric seas has received a rather familiar moniker.
Newly discovered crocodile's last meal was a dinosaur
2-14-2022 | 14
Palaeontologists have discovered a new species of prehistoric crocodile that once feasted upon small dinosaurs.
Prehistoric millipede was the size of a car
VIDEO 12-21-2021 | 29
Palaeontologists have announced the discovery of a truly gigantic millipede on a beach in England.
Four-legged, land-walking whale discovered
9-2-2021 | 6
The fossil remains of a particularly unusual species of prehistoric whale have been unearthed in Egypt.
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