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.
Chun has spent the last 20 years studying reptile fossils in China’s Guizhou province, where the 220-million-year-old turtle was also found.
The fossils, including one belonging to ancient ... on Earth at the same time as the ape known as Lucy, whose 3.2-million-year-old remains belonging to Africa's Australopithecus afarensis were ...
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 ...
The new research, published in Cretaceous Research, focuses on a 94-million-year-old mosasaur discovered in the gray shale badlands of the National ... the Kaiparowits for the air-conditioned comfort ...
Later the expedition discovers even older fossils in 500 million-year-old sedimentary layers. Lovecraft apparently based this part on the real discovery of fossil archaeocyathids in Antarctica ...
p>An artist's lithograph of the newly discovered Chakisaurus nekul, a herbivore which lived 90 million years ago in ... proven to be a treasure trove of fossils. This region of Patagonia has ...
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 ...
The Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest was created in 1994. Fossils of mammals found in petrified tree forest on Lesvos Two-million-year-old fossils were uncovered in December 2021 ...