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.
Tridentinosaurus antiquus is a fossil with an enigmatic history that’s only become murkier the more scientists study it. The 280-million-year-old reptile specimen has been hailed for the ...
Later the expedition discovers even older fossils in 500 million-year-old sedimentary layers. Lovecraft apparently based this part on the real discovery of fossil archaeocyathids in Antarctica ...
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 ...
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 ...
after being dead for millions of years. She discovered medullary bone in the fossil fragments from a Tyrannosaurus rex. Medullary bone is a special tissue that forms inside the bone cavities of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...