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 prehistoric turtle may have reached a total body length of around 5 feet, according to paleontologists. Paleontologists have uncovered fossils of a giant turtle species with some striking features ...
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”.
Fossils found in east Japan's Gunma and Tochigi prefectures have been identified as of a new dolphin genus and species, and ...
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 ...
A natural history museum in the eastern Japanese prefecture of Gunma says dolphin fossils in its possession are those of a new species of the Yangtze river dolphin family. It says they are the oldest ...
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 research team, supported by the National Geographic Society, initially discovered the fossils in 2018. However, the findings were only recently published in the journal Cretaceous Research.
Argentine paleontologists Rodrigo Alvarez and Sebastian Rozadilla look at fossils of the 'Chakisaurus nekul', a newly-discovered herbivorous dinosaur that lived about 90 million years ago in the ...