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 ...
Fossils of a completely preserved crocodile and bones belonging to at least six different dinosaurs, dating back 145 to 66 million years, have been unearthed in northeast China. Paleontologists from ...
The findings make Meghalaya the fifth state in India after Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu to report sauropod bones with Titanosaurian affinity ...
A man happened upon a 70-million-year-old fossil while walking his dog, but he and local archeologists kept it a secret for two years over fears that vandals would tamper with the find. Damien ...
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 discovery in Meghalaya's South Garo Hills has piqued global interest. However, there are growing concerns about preserving these ancient relics Siju, a serene haven nestled amidst the ...
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 ...
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 ...