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.
Paleontologists have discovered giant tortoise fossils in Colombia dating back some 57 million years, the university leading the excavation said, with the findings key to understanding South ...
It “fit together perfectly, like a multimillion-year-old jigsaw,” the statement noted. The latest piece was recovered in October 2022. After evaluating the fossils, the team surmised that the ...
The largest known sea turtle is the extinct Archelon, which lived in the seas surrounding the North American continent somewhere between 66 to 100 million years ago. The Archelon was around 4.6 ...
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 ...
It joins a 61-million-year-old giant penguin found recently in New Zealand that looks different from other penguins that lived around the same time. All these fossils seem to fit with the latest ...
As there are no fossils of these animals from this period of time, this is based solely on the DNA and molecular evidence of modern sharks and chimaeras. It was also around this time that the first ...
rex can tower over museum visitors or a Triceratops can show off its huge horns, dinosaur fossils must first ... dirt stuck to the more than 60-million-year-old remains using a tiny drill with ...
Scientists have used the latest computer-imaging technology to produce stunning three-dimensional pictures of a 49 million-year-old spider trapped inside an opaque piece of fossilized ... To test this ...