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 ...
Scientists have discovered traces of life more than half-a-billion years old that could change the way we think about how all animals evolved on earth. The international team, including ...
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Scientists have discovered a new 120 million-year-old dinosaur skin fossil that suggests the extinct reptile had both ‘scales and bird-like skin with feathers’. Palaeontologists at University ...
You don’t have to be an expert palaeontologist to find fossils of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. We spoke to Jack Wonfor from Wight Coast Fossils on the Isle of Wight to find out ...
The fossil is that of an echinoid, otherwise known as a sea urchin, and dates back to the Cretaceous period. It was found on Gorleston beach by Madelaine Miller, who spotted the object while ...
We recently caught up with Claire Mellish, Curator of Fossil Arthropods, to have a look at a sensational butterfly specimen from the Museum's collection. The specimen in question is an exquisite ...
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To the untrained eye, the ancient brittle star fossil above looks like what you’d expect of a now-especially-brittle echinoderm. But the fossil is quite rare: It captures the moment at which the ...
For example, the 2021 discovery of 480-million-year-old starfish-like animals in the Anti-Atlas mountains in Morocco helped us understand how these animals first appeared. Such fossils are the ...