Archeology
How amber creates exquisite fossils that preserve Earth's history
Warm-colored amber samples act as a 3-dimensional window to help scientists recreate ancient ecosystems through the countless animal and plant entities they contain.
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Archeology
Strange creature 'sealed' in rock for 478 million years: The ancestor of many species
An ancient stone slab in Morocco has preserved intact creatures that could fill an important evolutionary gap.
Archeology
155 million year old sea star fossilized right at the moment of rebirth
German scientists have discovered an extremely rare fossil of a 6-winged brittle starfish, fossilized right when it was undergoing the process of regenerating half of it…
Archeology
Discovery of new carnivorous dinosaur fossils in Argentina
According to Conicet, the 'Koleken inakayali' dinosaur is closely related to Carnotaurus, one of the most characteristic 'killers' of the Upper Cretaceous period (about…
Archeology
Discovery of dinosaur fossils with feathers and scales
Scientists discovered a new fossil of a dinosaur (Psittacosaurus) that had skin that combined feathers like a bird and hard scales like a reptile.
Archeology
The largest land mammal that ever lived was Paraceratherium - How big was it really?
Paraceratherium, also known as Indricotherium, is the largest known land mammal.
Science story
The famous bone war between two paleontologists
Both Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope discovered countless dinosaur fossils in the 19th century but were obsessed with the goal of taking each other down in the Bone Wars.
Archeology
Argentina discovered fossils of herbivorous dinosaurs 90 million years ago
This new dinosaur is a bipedal herbivore, the most important feature is a tail that curves downward unlike other dinosaurs where the tail is horizontal.
Archeology
Revealing a 5m tall dinosaur hybrid monster in China
Strange creature in Fujian - China that looks a bit like an ostrich but is a dinosaur, described as
History
Discovery of the evolutionary history of flowering plants
Newly published research on genomic data from 9,506 species, as well as examining 200 fossils, provides the deepest insight to date into the evolutionary history of flow…
Archeology
Colombia discovered giant turtle fossils dating back 57 million years ago
The expedition's leader said the fossil of Puentemys mushaisaensis, estimated to be about 1.5 meters long, was found in the mountainous municipality of Socha, northeaste…
Archeology
Australia discovered fossils of 3 new species of giant ancient kangaroos
All three newly discovered kangaroo species belong to the extinct kangaroo genus Protemnodon that lived on the Australian continent, between 5 million and 40,000 years a…
Archeology
Discovered the largest marine reptile fossil, up to 25m long
According to experts, the fossil discovered by an 11-year-old girl on the beach in Somerset County, England, may belong to an ichthyosaur, the largest marine reptile tha…
Archeology
30m long 'Destroyer' monster discovered in Argentina
The four monsters that have just appeared belong to a species that has never been known in the world.
Archeology
An Indian research team found a fossil that could be the largest snake on the planet
A group of researchers found fossils of giant ancient snakes that could have been longer than a school bus and weighed a ton.