PALEONTOLOGY

Brazilian researchers discover dinosaur fossil after heavy rains in Rio Grande do Sul

A team of Brazilian scientists has discovered a fossilized skeleton of what they believe is one of the world’s oldest dinosaurs after heavy rains...

Stegosaurus fossil fetches nearly $45M, setting record for dinosaur auctions

The nearly complete fossilized remains of a stegosaurus fetched $44.6 million at auction Wednesday, Sotheby's said. The buyer's name was not disclosed. The fossil, dubbed...

Brazilian researchers discover dinosaur fossil after heavy rains in Rio Grande do Sul

A team of Brazilian scientists has discovered a fossilized skeleton of what they believe is one of the world's oldest dinosaurs after heavy rains...

How old are South African fossils like the Taung Child? Study offers an answer

One hundred years ago, the discovery of a skull in South Africa's North West province altered our understanding of human evolution. The juvenile skull...

Gnatalie is the only green-boned dinosaur found on the planet. She will be on display in LA

The latest dinosaur being mounted at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles is not only a member of a new species—it's also the...

3D genome extracted from ‘freeze-dried’ woolly mammoth

About 52,000 years ago, the skinned hide of a Siberian woolly mammoth was exposed to conditions so frigid that it spontaneously freeze-dried, locking its...

Ancient large kangaroo moved mainly on four legs, according to new research

A type of extinct kangaroo that lived during the Pleistocene around two and a half million to 10 thousand years ago, known as the...

Stegosaurus skeleton to fetch millions at New York auction

The largest stegosaurus skeleton ever found is expected to fetch millions of dollars at auction in New York next week, likely fueling objections from...

Research reveals the most complete dinosaur discovered in the UK in a century

The most complete dinosaur discovered in this country in the last 100 years, with a pubic hip bone the size of a "dinner plate,"...

New geological dating techniques place first European hominids in Iberian Peninsula 1.3 million years ago

One of the most important controversies about human evolution and expansion is when and by what route the first hominids arrived in Europe from...

Life underground suited newly discovered dinosaur, study finds

The age of dinosaurs wasn't conducted solely above ground. A newly discovered ancestor of Thescelosaurus shows evidence that these animals spent at least part...

Giant salamander-like creature was a top predator in the ice age before the dinosaurs

Forty million years before the first dinosaurs evolved, a ferocious predator lurked in swampy waters. Its skull alone was over two feet long. It...

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