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 ...
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 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 ...
A team of Australian scientists have unearthed the evidence of an ‘Age of Monotremes’ at the Australian Museum (AM), Museums Victoria (MV) and Australian Opal Centre. The researchers believe ...
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 ...
Several fossils of the "daddy longlegs" type have been described, ... Discovery of 48-million-year-old daddy longlegs with their iridescent, metallic appearance intact (2024, June 3) ...
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 ...
Sharks have been around for hundreds of millions of years, appearing in the fossil record before trees even existed. But what did they evolve from, are they 'living fossils', and how did they survive ...
The kelp forests that hug the Pacific coastline are an underwater jungle. They’re a thicket of colossal algae intermixed with a pageant of life that includes snails, urchins, sea lions, sea otters, ...