Detection of fossil organisms 500 million years old
During an excavation near China's Yunnan Province, scientists found an amazingly intact fossil of a marine creature over 520 million years old.
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During an excavation near China's Yunnan Province, scientists found an amazingly intact fossil of a marine creature over 520 million years old.
For centuries, countless residents living near the remote Labynkyr lake in Siberia (Russia) reported seeing a large, strange underwater creature. It all raises speculati…
A newly discovered rare southern mammoth skeleton in the Tersk region of the Kabardino-Balkaria Autonomous Republic (Russia).
Scientists have shed light on the strange creatures whose tentacles live in the sea 520 million years ago.
Fossils of a snail-like creature, living in the seabed 500 million years ago, have revealed light on the origin of modern snails, shellfish and squid species.
Australian experts say the trail of the oldest creature ever existed on Earth, a 1cm-long slug, 585 million years ago in Uruguay. Traces of a slug-like creature, a bilat…
A huge fossil of a son pulled by accidental fishermen was taken to an MRI to see if it contained large sized pearls. This prehistoric animal has existed for over 100 mil…
Recently, archaeologists discovered an ancient set of fossils, which existed about 65 million years ago. The fossil set is found in South Dakota and North America cliffs…
An eel-like prehistoric creature found in Canada has been identified as the oldest ancestor of humans that science has ever known.
Named Coronacollina acula, this creature was from 560-550 million years ago, ie during the Ediacaran period (630-542 million years ago), before the outbreak of life and…
Scientists have discovered fossils of two horned dinosaurs,
On the Kamchatka peninsula, located 200km from Tigil village, scientists from Russia's Archaeological University St Petersburg discovered some strange fossils. According…
Scientists discovered fossils of a sponge-like creature dating back about 760 million years in Africa. This may be the first animal to appear on Earth.
250 million years ago about 96% of marine life and 70% of terrestrial organisms were wiped out, researchers believe that the cause is due to the formation of large coal…
Brazilian scientists have discovered fossils a type of sea monster called