Tag: fossils

Exceptionally well-preserved shark fossils from the time of the dinosaurs identified in Mexico

PALEONTOLOGY
An international team of archaeologists, paleontologists, evolutionists and geoscientists has analyzed ancient shark fossils from the time of the dinosaurs that were recently unearthed...

Africa is full of bats, but their fossils are scarce—why these rare records matter

PALEONTOLOGY
Africa is home to more than 20% of the world's bat population. There are more than 200 species to be found on the continent....

New research helps paleontologists to understand horse fossils and those that are missing from the record

PALEONTOLOGY
Many people assume that horses first came to the Americas when Spanish explorers brought them here about 500 years ago. In fact, recent research...

‘Frozen behaviors’ in amber fossils: How to reconstruct mating behavior of long-extinct termites

PALEONTOLOGY
Approximately 38 million years ago two termites were in the middle of courtship behavior when they got entrapped by tree resin and preserved in...

Earth’s earliest forest revealed in Somerset fossils

PALEONTOLOGY
Scientists have discovered remnants of the Earth's oldest fossil forest on the north coast of Devon and Somerset in the U.K. The trees, which...

Fossils of giant sea lizard with dagger-like teeth show how our oceans have fundamentally changed since the dinosaur era

PALEONTOLOGY
Paleontologists have discovered a strange new species of marine lizard with dagger-like teeth that lived near the end of the age of dinosaurs. Their...

Juvenile ‘T. rex’ fossils belong to a distinct tyrannosaur species

PALEONTOLOGY
A groundbreaking study reevaluates previously identified juvenile T. rex fossils, uncovering they were actually adult specimens of a distinct, smaller tyrannosaur species, Nanotyrannus lancensis. This species, initially...

The first Miocene fossils from coastal woodlands in the southern East African Rift

PALEONTOLOGY
An international team, with participation by the Geochronology and Geology Program of the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), has published...

Rare Jurassic fossils discovered near Lake Powell

PALEONTOLOGY
While documenting fossil tracksites along a stretch of Lake Powell, a Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (Glen Canyon NRA) field crew discovered the first...

New South American site reveals extraordinary fossils from the end of the age of the dinosaurs

PALEONTOLOGY
The discovery of a spectacular fossil site in Argentina is helping shed new light on life at the end of the Cretaceous, the time...

Race to find world’s oldest mammal fossils led to academic warfare in the 1970s

PALEONTOLOGY
The hunt for the world's most ancient mammals descended into academic warfare in the 1970s, researchers from the University of Bristol have discovered. In a study published...

Fossils show widespread plant extinctions after asteroid wiped out dinosaurs

PALEONTOLOGY
Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid the size of San Francisco crashed into a shallow sea off the coast of modern-day Mexico and plunged...
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