In 1931, an ancient reptile fossil was found in the Italian Alps. The 280-million-year-old fossil was eight inches long, and ...
Paleontologists found a new species of echinoderm that was halfway through the process of regeneration when it died.
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Paleontologists at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland, have solved a hundred-year-old mystery of how some fossil frogs preserve their fleshy parts—it's all down to their skin. The team ...
The kelp forests that hug the Pacific coastline are an underwater jungle. They’re a thicket of colossal algae intermixed with a pageant of life that includes snails, urchins, sea lions, sea otters, ...
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.
Although dinosaurs lived many millions of years ago, we know that they existed because some of them turned into fossils when they died. Watch our animation to discover how this happened, and explore ...
This story appears in the July 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the Afar desert of Ethiopia, there are a lot of ways to die. There is disease, of course. One can also perish from ...
Palaeontologists have discovered part of the skeleton of a 180 million-year-old pregnant ichthyosaur with the remains of between six and eight tiny embryos between its ribs. The new specimen was ...
Scientists estimate more than 99 per cent of all species that have ever existed on Earth are now extinct. Only a handful of them have been preserved as fossils. Fossils are ancient organisms ...
Ever since the very first dinosaurs were discovered in the early 1800s, humans have been obsessed. Luckily, there are endless destinations around the world where dinosaur enthusiasts can get their ...
Why hunting for 20-million-year-old petrified wood ... David, 68, bought the seaside property in Whitby, North Yorkshire, 14 years ago as a rental opportunity - but ... Sir Jim Ratcliffe has his work ...