Paleontologists have uncovered fossils of a giant turtle species with some striking features, such as its shape, that lived tens of millions of years ago in South America. The research team found ...
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”.
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I’m a journalist specializing in the quirky side of science and space. Tridentinosaurus antiquus is a fossil with an enigmatic history ...
A new species of ancient turtle that swam the shores of Europe millions of years ago may have been one of the largest sea turtles to have ever lived, scientists have said. Fossilised remains of ...
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I deal with the rocky road to our modern understanding of earth As Lovecraft inspired the authors of the discovery, fossils inspired some ...
She has even worked on a fossil from a 200-million-year-old Eurypterida, or sea scorpion. McClain doesn't actually like puzzles very much, she says. But when it "turns into a dinosaur ...
Scientists have discovered traces of life more than half-a-billion years old that could change the way we think about how all animals evolved on earth. The international team, including ...
Before a T. rex can tower over museum visitors or a Triceratops can show off its huge horns, dinosaur fossils must first be painstakingly reconstructed -- cleaned, fit together and even painted.
An incredible 155-million-year-old fossil shows a starfish-like creature cloning itself. Get any of our free email newsletters — news headlines, sports, arts & entertainment, state legislature ...