P aleontologists have uncovered fossils of a giant turtle species with some striking features, such as its shape, that lived ...
The way that turtles evolved into their modern form, with a shell fused to their skeleton and a beaklike face without teeth, has been described as “one of evolution’s most enduring puzzles”.
FROM 508 MILLION YEARS AGO TO TODAYPreserved in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, the worm Canadia spinosa was part of an explosion in biodiversity during the Cambrian period that gave birth ...
Archaeologists also found a large amount of teeth, arm, pelvis and rib bones belonging to at least six different dinosaurs, most of which were in good condition, Xinhua reported. (Representative ...
You don’t have to be an expert palaeontologist to find fossils of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. We spoke to Jack Wonfor from Wight Coast Fossils on the Isle of Wight to find out ...
Paleontologists from Argentina announced the discovery of a new medium-sized herbivorous dinosaur, which was a fast runner and lived about 90 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period in ...
An incredible 155-million-year-old fossil shows a starfish-like creature cloning itself. Please log in, or sign up for a new account and purchase a subscription to continue reading.
One of the most enduring tropes about crocodiles is to describe them as “living fossils”. They are cold, slow moving and scaly, so they look like how one might picture a dinosaur. Like many ...
Should bankers take a Hippocratic Oath? Thanks to recent financial scandals and fraud, public trust in the financial industry is low. But a new study published in the journal Nature shows that ...