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 ...
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 ...
Militocodon lydae offers insight into modern hoofed animal ancestry. Denver Museum of Nature & Science Scientists from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science have discovered a 65-million-year-old ...
Borealopelta, an armoured dinosaur fossil featured in Dinosaur Cold Case, a documentary from The Nature of Things, had huge 51-centimetre-long shoulder spikes. Could that mean Borealopelta was a ...
A FOSSIL collection described as "one of the most important of its type in the world" has been donated to the National Museum of Scotland. The collection of more than 700 bird fossils dates back from ...
SCIENTISTS have identified fossil remains dating back 70 million years as belonging to the largest-ever turtle recorded in Europe. A set of bones were found by a hiker in the Pyrenees mountains in ...
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 ...
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. An incredible find by a paleontologist in New Jersey led to the ...
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.