Paleontologists have uncovered fossils of a giant turtle species with some striking features, such as its shape, that lived tens of millions of years ago in South America. The research team found ...
The way that turtles evolved into their modern form, with a shell fused to their skeleton and a beaklike face without teeth, has been described as “one of evolution’s most enduring puzzles”.
Two young brothers and their cousin were wandering through a fossil-rich stretch of the North Dakota badlands when they made ...
A 127 million-year-old fossil of a side-necked turtle, the first found to have lived in the UK, has been discovered on the Isle of Wight. The fossil has been nicknamed 'Burby' after enthusiast Steve ...
Militocodon lydae offers insight into modern hoofed animal ancestry. Denver Museum of Nature & Science Scientists from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science have discovered a 65-million-year-old ...
Borealopelta, an armoured dinosaur fossil featured in Dinosaur Cold Case, a documentary from The Nature of Things, had huge 51-centimetre-long shoulder spikes. Could that mean Borealopelta was a ...
Two young brothers and their cousin were wandering through a fossil-rich stretch of the North Dakota badlands when they made ...
A FOSSIL collection described as "one of the most important of its type in the world" has been donated to the National Museum of Scotland. The collection of more than 700 bird fossils dates back from ...