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.
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 ...
At a repatriation ceremony at the National Library of Chile in Santiago on Monday (13 May), Chilean authorities returned 117 fossils dating back 400 million years to Morocco. The artefacts had ...
Several fossils of the "daddy longlegs" type have ... light in such a way that they have a shiny appearance, even 48 million years later. This has never been seen in fossil harvestmen before.
The evolution process of plants has been a mystery. However, a team of scientists recently studied plant fossils and linked it to plant reproduction evolution.
Two young brothers and their cousin made the discovery of a lifetime whilst hiking in North Dakota — a T-rex bone poking out ...
“We then knew exactly, pretty much exactly, that these fossils were 32 million years old,” Kiel says. “No doubt about it.” This result confirms the earlier genetics work, but the fossils are stronger ...