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250-million-year-old fossil seen anew with modern technology

PALEONTOLOGY
Details of an ancient cousin of modern-day mammals are being revealed for the first time. Hi-tech scanning of an ancient fossil, which was captured...

New analysis determines ancient polar sea reptile fossil is oldest ever found in Southern Hemisphere

PALEONTOLOGY
An international team of scientists has identified the oldest fossil of a sea-going reptile from the Southern Hemisphere—a nothosaur vertebra found on New Zealand's...

Paleontologists identify a new fossil fish genus

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Gobies or Gobioidei are one of the most species-rich groups of marine and freshwater fish in Europe. Spending most of their lives on the...

Researchers find rare organ preservation in Brazilian fossil fishes

PALEONTOLOGY
Fossils in Brazil indicate a more complex evolutionary history for ray-finned fish brains than previously anticipated, according to new research. Rodrigo Tinoco Figueroa, a Brazilian...

Fossil-hunting diver says he has found a large section of mastodon tusk off Florida’s coast

PALEONTOLOGY
At first, fossil-hunting diver Alex Lundberg thought the lengthy object on the sea floor off Florida's Gulf Coast was a piece of wood. It...

Three boys found a T. rex fossil in North Dakota. Now a Denver museum works to fully reveal it

PALEONTOLOGY
Two young brothers and their cousin were wandering through a fossil-rich stretch of the North Dakota badlands when they made a discovery that left...

Fossil places extinct saber-toothed cat on Texas coast

PALEONTOLOGY
Important scientific finds don't always come in the biggest, buzziest packages. Sometimes new discoveries come in little ugly rocks. Such is the case of...

Large fossil discovery finally exposes origins of Welsh dragons

PALEONTOLOGY
A large fossil discovery has helped shed light on the history of dinosaurs in Wales. The find is reported in Proceedings of the Geologists'...

Fossil captures starfish splitting itself in two—showing this has been happening for 155 million years

PALEONTOLOGY
One of the wildest wonders of nature is the ability of some animals to reproduce by splitting in half. There is still so much...

Discovery of ancient Glaswegian shrimp fossil reveals new species

PALEONTOLOGY
A short but robust little shrimp may have died out over 330 million years ago during the Carboniferous period, but the rare Scottish shellfish...

US restorationist solves 60-million-year-old dinosaur fossil ‘puzzles’

PALEONTOLOGY
Before a T. rex can tower over museum visitors or a Triceratops can show off its huge horns, dinosaur fossils must first be painstakingly...

Researchers spent two years in deep underground caves to bring this extraordinary fossil to light

PALEONTOLOGY
Pitch-black darkness. Crushing squeezes, muddy passages, icy waterfalls. Bats and spiders. Abseiling over ledges into the unknown. How far would you go for a...
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