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 ...
The way that turtles evolved into their modern form, with a shell fused to their skeleton and a beaklike face without teeth, has been described as “one of evolution’s most enduring puzzles”.
An incredible 155-million-year-old fossil shows a starfish-like creature cloning itself. The brittle star - a relative of starfish - was frozen in time as it regenerated half of its body.
You don’t have to be an expert palaeontologist to find fossils of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. We spoke to Jack Wonfor from Wight Coast Fossils on the Isle of Wight to find out ...
FROM 508 MILLION YEARS AGO TO TODAYPreserved in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, the worm Canadia spinosa was part of an explosion in biodiversity during the Cambrian period that gave birth ...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Colorado researchers discovered fossils of a new species of mammal at a site on the edge of Colorado Springs. The Denver Museum of Nature & Science researchers ...
Paleontologists in Argentina have uncovered a new herbivorous dinosaur species known as Chakisaurus nekul, a fast-running creature that roamed Patagonia during the Late Cretaceous period ...
Should bankers take a Hippocratic Oath? Thanks to recent financial scandals and fraud, public trust in the financial industry is low. But a new study published in the journal Nature shows that ...