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 ...
Militocodon lydae offers insight into modern hoofed animal ancestry. Denver Museum of Nature & Science Scientists from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science have discovered a 65-million-year-old ...
Borealopelta, an armoured dinosaur fossil featured in Dinosaur Cold Case, a documentary from The Nature of Things, had huge 51-centimetre-long shoulder spikes. Could that mean Borealopelta was a ...
A FOSSIL collection described as "one of the most important of its type in the world" has been donated to the National Museum of Scotland. The collection of more than 700 bird fossils dates back from ...
Once a spider-like species that crawled through the Carboniferous coal forests of North America and Europe have now been traced back to an ancient species of arachnid named Douglassarachne ...
A fossil unearthed by a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) team is unlocking new information about the evolution of the most successful marine reptile family during the later part of the dinosaur age.
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 ...
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 ...