Browsing the "Fossils" Tag

How Mosasaurs came to rule the ocean

August 4th, 2011 | by Sevaan Franks

Scientists are studied how Mosasaurs tranformed from animals with limited swimming ability to one of the top marine predators. Mosasaurs’


Oldest armored creature discovered

June 7th, 2011 | by Sevaan Franks

A 700-million-year-old microfossil of an organism covered in spiny plates is the oldest armored creature yet discovered. The plated animals


Giant shrimp was once largest sea monster

May 26th, 2011 | by Sevaan Franks

LiveScience has posted an interesting article about anomalocaridids, giant shrimp-like creatures which, for a few million years, were once the


Ancient marsupials lived in packs

May 10th, 2011 | by Sevaan Franks

Nowadays, marsupials are solitary creatures (except for Kangaroos), but newly discovered fossils show that millions of years ago they lived