According to the study, the fossils represent a now-extinct turtle species known as Puentemys mushaisaensis, which lived in the northernmost part of South America around 57 million years ago.
Chun has spent the last 20 years studying reptile fossils in China’s Guizhou province, where the 220-million-year-old turtle was also found.
After its death around 67 million years ago ... consider to be another sibling — affectionately dubbed the fossil “The ...
After its death around 67 million years ago ... consider to be another sibling — affectionately dubbed the fossil "The ...
The 150-million-year old fossil of a stegosaurus that has been named "Apex" by the paleontologist who discovered it could become one of the most expensive fossils ever sold this summer when it's ...
To the untrained eye, the ancient brittle star fossil above looks like what you ... Hex—dates to the Late Jurassic, about 150 million years ago. Brittle stars are not starfish; though both ...
Two young brothers and their cousin were wandering through a fossil-rich stretch of the North Dakota badlands when they ...
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There is still so much we don't know about this process. So the discovery of a 155-million-year-old starfish fossil frozen partway through this process, published in a new study, could give ...
She has even worked on a fossil from a 200-million-year-old Eurypterida, or sea scorpion. McClain doesn't actually like puzzles very much, she says. But when it "turns into a dinosaur ...
Scientists have discovered traces of life more than half-a-billion years old ... fossils of complex animals – at least that is what all current fossil records would suggest.’ The fossils found date ...