We don't know about Sasquatch, but we know a giant ape we call Gigantopithecus roamed South Asia until about 300,000 years ago. Gigantopithecus resembled a ten-foot-tall orangutan and weighed about three times as much as...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/09/how-gigantopithecus-became-extinct/Remember the Neanderthals you se... ...the fanciful visuals to accompany the dry data of paleontology . Meet two such paleoartists, the twin brot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/20/how-paleoartists-create-prehistory/Megalonyx jeffersonii Fossils rarely do scien... ...ther. 3. Getting Your Head Screwed on Right Paleontology ’s version of the Hatfields and the McCoys, Mars... ...enry Fairfield Osborn was a giant in the field of paleontology , but he also has one giant mistake to his name. I... ...Monster Long be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/10/10-massive-screw-ups-in-paleontology/The earth saw a mysterious episode of global warming 56 million years ago due to a surge of carbon into the atmosphere. Animals could walk from continent to continent and never see ice. That period is called PETM, or the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/23/hothouse-earth/Fossils of a 160-million-year-old mammal found in China show us a placental mammal that is 35 million years older than any found before. This tiny animal is named Juramaia sinensis, or "Jurassic mother from China." With...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/27/jurassic-mother-from-china/(YouTube link) Performed by the group Brighter Lights, Thicker Glasses. Music teacher turned science teacher John Palmer wrote this song to help his students learn about the Cambrian Explosion. Some of them remember...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/14/cambrian-explosion/Researchers at UC Berkeley and Smithsonian Institution paleontologists have collaborated on a study of gray whales and how they survived so many global climate changes. The result-gray whales varied their diets and adapt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/11/gray-whales-survived-ice-ages-by-changing-their-diet/The idea of giant bunny rabbits may remind you of... ...Quintana, a scientist at the Catalan Institute of Paleontology , and colleagues Meike Kohler and Salvador Moya-So... ...he giant fossil rabbit in a Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology paper. They believe the rabbit lost the ability t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/22/the-biggest-rabbit-ever/If you haven't studied dinosaurs since you were an elementary school student, you have some catching up to do! As paleontologists find more and different fossils, our body of knowledge about the prehistoric reptiles has...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/12/top-10-dinosaurs-that-arent-what-they-were/"Hmm? Oh don't mind me. You know us bears, we... ...according to a paper in this month’s Journal of Paleontology . Standing 11 feet tall and weighing in at abou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/02/biggest-bear-ever/
