Before dinosaurs, before trees, even before vertebrates crawled onto land — there were trilobites. These armored, multi-limbed creatures ruled Earth’s oceans for over 270 million years, leaving behind one of the...
Long before sharks became the ocean’s top predators, another jaw-dropping creature dominated the seas — Dunkleosteus. With armor-plated jaws and a bite strong enough to crush bone, it was one of the...
Placoderms: The Armored Pioneers of Prehistoric Seas
Before sharks ruled the oceans, before dinosaurs stomped the Earth, there was a group of strange, armored fish that dominated the underwater world: placoderms.
These early...
When we think of the good dinosaur, images of towering, fearsome creatures often come to mind. However, not all dinosaurs were formidable predators; many were gentle herbivores that coexisted peacefully in...
