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.
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 ...
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 ...
Denver Museum of Nature & Science Scientists from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science have discovered a 65-million-year-old mammal species ... this new fossil was found in Corral Bluffs ...
A paleontologist in New Jersey found the second half of a giant sea turtle fossil more than 160 years after the first half was found ... Los Angeles Times reports it was about 10 feet long and lived ...
A 300-million-year-old fish fossil discovered in Kansas has evidence of photoreceptor eye tissue. It's the earliest known display of seeing in color. You know that magic moment when black-and-white ...
In an unexpected discovery, fossils of a juvenile Tyrannosaurus ... The bone size shows that Teen Rex was 13 to 15 years old at the time of its death around 67 million years ago.
A fossil unearthed by a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) team is unlocking new information about the evolution of the most successful marine reptile family during the later part of the dinosaur age.
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 ...