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 ...
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 540-million-year-old sea sponge fossil discovered five years ago along the Yangtze River in China has attracted the attention of scientists lately, leading them to analyze its disposition.
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 ...
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 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 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.
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 ...