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Discover the oldest fossil animal footprint ever
A group of Chinese and American paleontologists yesterday announced the discovery of the oldest fossil animal footprint ever in the Three Gorges canyon area on the Chang…
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The earliest fossil evidence of childcare behavior
The research team at Northwestern University in China discovered fossils of the ancient Fuxianhuia protensa at the Chiungchussu Geological Formation in Kunming, southern…
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Discover fossils of exotic shrimp with apricot and 50 legs
Scientists have discovered fossils of the strange 508 million year old shrimp, which are considered to be the oldest arthropods in the world.
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Discover 305 million-year-old spider fossils
A team of researchers has discovered fossils of an ancient spider that dates back to 305 million years in France.
Archeology
Lobster, butterflies and spiders share ancestors together
Recently, scientists have found fossils of creatures thought to be common ancestors of butterflies, spiders and lobsters.
Archeology
New discovery about sea scorpions
Scientists once believed that arthropods called pterygotid eurypterids are preeminent predators in shallow waters.
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Detecting ancient whale fossils with strange shapes
Researchers have recently discovered evidence of a giant living under the ocean more than 500 million years ago.
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Johnny Depp is named for the extinct creature
The scientific world has registered the actor
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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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Finding fossils with extremely rare soft tissue
A group of researchers has made an extremely rare discovery of an animal with features such as crab, lobster and shrimp. This creature is also a mystery to science.
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Discovered 500 million-year-old insect has brain
Fossils discovered in mudstone in Yunnan Province, China are Fuxianhuia protensa, ancient ancestors of arthropods today. They appeared in the Cambrian period dating back…
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Fossil 'cactus walking'
Chinese scientists say that fossils of an insect have been discovered that may be an intermediate stage of development of more ancient animals with today's arthropods.
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India discovered the largest mass of amber in history
International fossil researchers have discovered an amber weighing up to 150kg in Gujarat, western India.
Archeology
Trilobita - The Mistress of ancient times
Tam Diep coincides is an ancient arthropod that lived on 600-200 million years ago. Now it almost occupied the oceans, the ancient hegemony. By mid-life, they were compl…