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A famous Scottish fossil is forcing scientists to rethink what claw-like feet really reveal about the move onto land. Pressed flat inside two slabs of Scottish rock, a 345-million-...
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A famous Scottish fossil is forcing scientists to rethink what claw-like feet really reveal about the move onto land. Pressed flat inside two slabs of Scottish rock, a 345-million-...
Learn how new X-ray scans reveal that a famous Scottish fossil is changing our understanding of how four-legged animals evolved.
One of the oldest known animal fossils preserved in three dimensions has been discovered in a sheep field in the Norwegian Arctic, marking the first major new fossil site of its ki...
Two rare Wyoming fossils have revealed the chunkiest squid relative ever discovered, a Jurassic animal whose family was thought to have vanished millions of years earlier. Research...
A 245-million-year-old marine reptile fossil preserves an astonishing amount of detail, including its stomach, liver, and intestines. The discovery reveals that Austronaga minuta w...
A pair of Belgian tourists have discovered the remains of a 174-million-year-old giant ichthyosaur while strolling on a beach in Dorset.
By the time animals left their first unmistakable fossils, they may already have had up to 200 million years of evolutionary history behind them. A fossil deposit in Mongolia prese...
A misidentified museum fossil has revealed Jeanerpeton mazonensis, a distinct amphibian ancestor that lived near present-day Chicago 309 million years ago. Jeanerpeton mazonensis,...
The fish that preceded the first four-legged land animals came in a wider variety of forms than we had thought, and fossils show that one had an elbow joint that moved in an oddly...
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers in Wyoming, U.S., have uncovered two rare fossils of a Jurassic squid-like species that lived about 160 million years ago. The species,...
Something took a bite out of one of the biggest predators in Cambrian seas, an extraordinary fossil shows – and it could well be cannibalism
Scientists have identified the “fattest” belemnite ever discovered, a bizarre, barrel-shaped squid relative that lived in Wyoming’s ancient seas 160 million years ago. The exceptio...
New research from the University of St Andrews has shed light on the evolution of an important yet thus far poorly understood group of marine invertebrate animals—brachiopods. The...
Unusual fossils from an ancient North Sea delta may reveal where plesiosaurs fed. Fossilized vomit is not the kind of evidence paleontologists usually dream about finding. But it m...
A 10-year-old boy was out looking for fossils along the shore in Islandmagee when he spotted the back of the skull.
A high-resolution conodont biostratigraphic study of Late Permian rocks in western Hubei and eastern Chongqing shows that China's shale gas sweet spot in the Dalong Formation is co...
La Trobe archaeologists have described 18 new hominin fossils, including a second Homo erectus skull fragment that confirms the species first appeared in southern Africa 2.0 millio...
How quickly sediment accumulates on the seafloor appears to be the key factor determining whether fossils from different time periods become mixed together. A single layer of marin...
A newly identified mammal relative suggests that Tanzania’s possible early dinosaur fossils may be younger than previously thought. Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda, a newly identified...
Ένα ζευγάρι Βέλγων τουριστών ανακάλυψε απολιθώματα ιχθυόσαυρου ηλικίας 174 εκατ. ετών σε παραλία του Ντόρσετ
Invictibellatrix amberina, a predator in the megaraptoran group of dinosaurs, lived in what is now Britain 120 million years ago and may have had claws 20 centimetres long
Museums have countless examples of the common fossils from these Lower Jurassic rocks, says the Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre’s Phil DavidsonThe vast majority of the fossils reve...
The fossilized remains, which belonged to a large, hoofed animal, are believed to be more than 40 million years old.
A new prehistoric animal species from Tanzania dating to around 240 million years ago, during the Triassic period, has been described by an international team of researchers. Led b...
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