Paleontologists have discovered giant tortoise fossils in Colombia dating back some 57 million years, the university leading the excavation said, with the findings key to understanding South ...
A new fossil find sheds light on ancient inhabitants of the region. Fossil remains of a giant turtle have been unearthed in Brazil. Peltocephalus maturin is the name given to the newly discovered ...
Paleontologists found a new species of echinoderm that was halfway through the process of regeneration when it died.
A new species of ancient turtle that swam the shores of Europe millions of years ago may have been one of the largest sea turtles to have ever lived, scientists have said. Fossilised remains of ...
Before a T. rex can tower over museum visitors or a Triceratops can show off its huge horns, dinosaur fossils must first be painstakingly reconstructed -- cleaned, fit together and even painted.
Some paleontologists go their entire careers without a discovery like the one 16-year-old Lindsey Stallworth found on her first day of digging. Stallworth was hours into excavating on her family ...
An incredible 155-million-year-old fossil shows a starfish-like creature cloning itself. The brittle star - a relative of ...
For example, the 2021 discovery of 480-million-year-old starfish-like animals in the Anti-Atlas mountains in Morocco helped us understand how these animals first appeared. Such fossils are the ...
An 11-year-old girl on a fossil hunt with her father uncovered a chunk of jawbone, leading paleontologists to later identify the bones as belonging to a previously unknown titan of the prehistoric ...
‘Go for a walk on the beach. You never know what you might come across,’ says local beachcomber A woman in P.E.I. has found a rare fossil that an expert says is likely from the early Permian ...
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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.