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 ...
and 9 years old respectively in 2022 when they stumbled across this enormous fossilized leg bone. Named Teen Rex, this juvenile dinosaur had been buried for around 67 million years. Interestingly ...
(Via National Geographic) But now that they are together, researchers were able to get a better idea of how big the sea turtle was. Los Angeles Times reports it was about 10 feet long and lived about ...
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 ...
Dr. Lustri and co-authors euchelicerate fossils from the 478-million-year-old Fezouata Shale of Morocco and identified a new species that links modern euchelicerates to those from the Cambrian period ...
“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 ...
Butterflies have been recorded in fossils dating back to the mid-Eocene epoch, around 40-50 million years ago, although their origin is thought to be earlier. Lithopsyche is about 34 million years old ...
p>An artist's lithograph of the newly discovered Chakisaurus nekul, a herbivore which lived 90 million years ago in present ... to be a treasure trove of fossils. This region of Patagonia has ...