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.
To the untrained eye, the ancient brittle star fossil above looks like what you ... Hex—dates to the Late Jurassic, about 150 million years ago. Brittle stars are not starfish; though both ...
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There is still so much we don't know about this process. So the discovery of a 155-million-year-old starfish fossil frozen partway through this process, published in a new study, could give ...
There is still so much we don’t know about this process. So the discovery of a 155-million-year-old starfish fossil frozen partway through this process, published in a new study, could give ...
after being dead for millions of years. She discovered medullary bone in the fossil fragments from a Tyrannosaurus rex. Medullary bone is a special tissue that forms inside the bone cavities of ...
Scientists have discovered traces of life more than half-a-billion years old ... fossils of complex animals – at least that is what all current fossil records would suggest.’ The fossils found date ...
The findings make Meghalaya the fifth state in India after Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu to report sauropod bones with Titanosaurian affinity ...
The fossil is that of an echinoid, otherwise known as a sea urchin, and dates back to the Cretaceous period. It was found on Gorleston beach by Madelaine Miller, who spotted the object while ...
HOUSTON - Before a T. rex (Tyrannosaurus rex) can tower over museum visitors or a Triceratops can show off its huge horns, dinosaur fossils must first be painstakingly reconstructed — cleaned ...
2 million year old fossils found in 1995 by Meave Leakey and Alan Walker in Kenya (Australepithecus anamensis). These latter show clear signs of walking upright and of living in a wooded area ...