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.
To the untrained eye, the ancient brittle star fossil above looks like what you ... Hex—dates to the Late Jurassic, about 150 million years ago. Brittle stars are not starfish; though both ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Scientists have discovered traces of life more than half-a-billion years old ... fossils of complex animals – at least that is what all current fossil records would suggest.’ The fossils found date ...
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 ...
Therefore, it is common knowledge that 'only female mosquitoes suck blood', but an analysis of an old mosquito fossil discovered ... Lebanon that is about 30 million years old in the academic ...
May 28, 2024 — Using ancient DNA extracted from the toe bone of a museum specimen, biologists have sequenced the genome of an extinct, flightless bird called the little bush moa, shedding light ...
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 ...
Scientists, studying a fossil site of “unique importance”, have learnt about a lost prehistoric ecosystem which was home to dinosaurs over 200 million years ago. At Lavernock on the south ...