FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Long before whales began singing through the oceans—and while dinosaurs were still finding their feet on land—sleek, sharp-toothed reptiles ...

Alnashetri cerropoliciensis Slip back 90 million years and wander the sun-baked floodplains of Patagonia, where the giants get all the glory...

Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis  This story begins some 125 million years ago on the lush floodplains of what is now the Isle of Wight, back ...

Spotted Hyena, Crocuta crocuta This charming fellow with the questionable dental hygiene is a Spotted Hyena, Crocuta crocuta .  As a whole, ...

Woolly rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatis The Woolly rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatis , was one of the great lumbering herbivores of Ple...

Woolly rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatis Travelling widely is one of the great pleasures of our age. Modern transport makes trips hither a...

Standing in the Age of Mammals Hall at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is one of the most delightfully perplexing mammals e...

There are few creatures quite as charming—or as suspiciously competent—as the raccoon. With its black mask, ringed tail and remarkably nimbl...

Massetognathus pascuali There are fossils that appear fierce. There are fossils that look dignified, mysterious or magnificently prehistoric...

Among the towering dinosaurs, enormous marine reptiles and other spectacular fossils at the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi is a much small...

Coyote, Canis latrans Dire wolves vanished. Sabre-toothed cats vanished. American lions, western camels, native horses and giant ground slot...