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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
She’s the Queensland outback property owner with a penchant for amateur palaeontology. But now Cassandra Prince, from the McKinlay area about 200km east of Mount Isa, has made a discovery that’s being ...
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 ...
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 ...