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 ...
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 findings make Meghalaya the fifth state in India after Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu to report sauropod bones with Titanosaurian affinity ...
Fossils of a completely preserved crocodile and bones belonging to at least six different dinosaurs, dating back 145 to 66 million years, have been unearthed in northeast China. Paleontologists from ...
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.
To the untrained eye, the ancient brittle star fossil above looks like what you’d expect of a now-especially-brittle echinoderm. But the fossil is quite rare: It captures the moment at which the ...
She’s the Queensland outback property owner with a penchant for amateur palaeontology. But now Cassandra Prince, from the McKinlay area about 200km east of Mount Isa, has made a discovery that’s being ...
The fossil discovery in Meghalaya's South Garo Hills has piqued global interest. However, there are growing concerns about preserving these ancient relics Siju, a serene haven nestled amidst the ...
For example, the 2021 discovery of 480-million-year-old starfish-like animals in the Anti-Atlas mountains in Morocco helped us understand how these animals first appeared. Such fossils are the ...