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 ...
Paleontologists found a new species of echinoderm that was halfway through the process of regeneration when it died.
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I’m a journalist specializing in the quirky side of science and space. Tridentinosaurus antiquus is a fossil with an enigmatic history ...
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.
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 ...
11-Year-Old Girl and Dad Find 202 Million-Year-Old Fossil News April 22, 2024 A father and daughter duo found a fossil that may change what scientists know about prehistoric animals.
The fossil is that of an echinoid, otherwise known as a sea urchin, and dates back to the Cretaceous period. It was found on Gorleston beach by Madelaine Miller, who spotted the object while ...
At a repatriation ceremony at the National Library of Chile in Santiago on Monday (13 May), Chilean authorities returned 117 fossils dating back 400 million years to Morocco. The artefacts had ...
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Paleontologists from Argentina announced the discovery of a new medium-sized herbivorous dinosaur, which was a fast runner and lived about 90 million years ago in the Late ...