The mad scientists at Jurassic Park (later Jurassic World) were no strangers to hybrid organisms. Their earliest dinosaurs were necessarily genetic mashups, using modern amphibian DNA to fill in the ...

Before the dawn of the dinosaurs, there was Soccoropteris cancellarei. The plant, which was found in Socorro County, is a newly discovered species that would have lived about 290 million years ago, ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

A "strange" prehistoric plant species is the lone representative of a mysterious group of organisms that no longer exists, scientists have discovered. The first evidence of the species—in the form of ...

In ‘Just a Matter of Time,’ Mónika Kárándi dives deep into human endurance and the ancient resilience of the Welwitschia Mirabilis. These prehistoric plants, dating back to the dinosaur era and ...

Ancient horsetail plants, surviving for 400 million years, are revealing Earth's climate history. Their unique water ...