Tag: fossils

Christmas is the time for families to come together, and in the midst of the festive season, University of Leicester paleontologists have announced that they have reunited a family that has been separated for 150 million...
Academics from Northumbria University are part of an international research team which has used data from satellites to track changes in the thickness of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Global warming is causing the Ice Sheet to melt...

Researchers piece together 66-million-year-old dinosaur fossils found in South Dakota

The groundbreaking discovery of a 66-million-year-old dinosaur continues to reveal itself years after a piece of it was first spotted, Missouri researchers said. A South...

Rare fossils of extinct elephant document the earliest known instance of butchery in India

During the late middle Pleistocene, between 300 and 400 thousand years ago, at least three ancient elephant relatives died near a river in the...

Fossils and fires: Insights into early modern human activity in the jungles of Southeast Asia

Studying microscopic layers of dirt dug from the Tam Pà Ling cave site in northeastern Laos has provided a team of Flinders University archaeologists...

Fossils from the Adriatic Sea show a recent and worrying reversal of fortunes

If you'd stopped monitoring the Adriatic Sea's marine life in the mid-20th century, the outlook would have been promising. Snails and the clams they...

Brazilian fossils reveal early evolution of mammalian jaw and middle ear

Newly discovered fossils, belonging to the mammal-precursor species Brasilodon quadrangularis and Riograndia guaibensis, offer critical insights into the development of the mammalian jaw and...

Trilobite fossils from upstate New York reveal ‘extra’ set of legs

A new study finds that a trilobite species with exceptionally well-preserved fossils from upstate New York has an additional set of legs underneath its...

A ‘trilobite Pompeii’: Perfectly preserved fossils of ancient sea critters found buried in volcanic ash

If you've ever visited the fossil gallery of a natural history museum—or its gift shop, for that matter—you've probably seen the armored body remains...

Most pristine trilobite fossils ever found shake up scientific understanding of the long extinct group

Researchers have described some of the best-preserved three-dimensional trilobite fossils ever discovered. The fossils, which are more than 500 million years old, were collected...

New study finds dinosaur fossils did not inspire the mythological griffin

A popular and widely-promoted claim that dinosaur fossils inspired the legend of the griffin, the mythological creature with a raptorial bird head and wings...

New fossils show what Australia’s giant prehistoric ‘thunder birds’ looked like

Until about 45,000 years ago, Australia was home to a giant flightless bird called Genyornis newtoni, which was 2 meters tall and weighed up...

Is it a bird or a dinosaur? Fossils from Teylers Museum in Netherlands secretly visit UK’s synchrotron

The feathered limbs, sharp teeth and claws of the oldest known bird-like dinosaurs, the Archaeopteryx have fascinated naturalists and paleontologists including Charles Lyell and...

From fossils to fuel: Energy potential of Mozambique’s Maniamba Basin

In the ever-expanding search for energy resources, a new study has emerged from Mozambique's Maniamba Basin. A team led by Nelson Nhamutole, a Ph.D....

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