About 20,000 years ago, a family of owls lived in a cave. Sometimes, they would cough up owl pellets containing the bones of their prey, which landed ...
Learn how environmental constraints and a lack of soil led ancient bees to reuse fossil cavities in a Caribbean cave, leaving ...
For millions of years, the land we now call the United States has been home to towering prehistoric beasts, strange sea creatures, and lush ancient forests that no longer exist. Evidence of this ...
Mammoth Cave, the world's longest known cave system, stretches 426 miles under Kentucky. The cave's limestone began forming 330 million years ago when the region was submerged under an ocean. Visitors ...
Excavated from a hayfield near Warrensburg, Fossil Pond and its limestone evoke an age 300 million years ago when a vast sea covered much of the Midwest, including Kansas City. Gary Rhoades From a ...
JOPLIN, Mo. — Although you may be familiar with the abundance of wildlife the Show-Me State currently has to offer, you might not have to go far to explore Missouri’s prehistoric inhabitants. Let’s ...
About 150 million years ago powerful storm winds buffeted two young pterosaurs, snapping forelimb bones in their fragile wings and sending them hurtling to their deaths in the muddy depths of a lagoon ...