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 ...
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 ...
She has even worked on a fossil from a 200-million-year-old Eurypterida, or sea scorpion. McClain doesn't actually like puzzles very much, she says. But when it "turns into a dinosaur ...
An incredible 155-million-year-old fossil shows a starfish-like creature cloning itself. The brittle star - a relative 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.
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I deal with the rocky road to our modern understanding of earth As Lovecraft inspired the authors of the discovery, fossils inspired some ...
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 ...
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Finding ancient fossils is no easy task, even for seasoned paleontologists and other ...
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 Cretaceous period in ...