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Giant bird at the same time as dinosaurs
Archeology

Giant bird at the same time as dinosaurs

Scientists have found fossils of a giant ostrich bird that looks like a giant ostrich, who lived at the same time as dinosaurs about 83 million years ago.

December 17, 2018
Detecting traces of prehistoric tailed eagle
Archeology

Detecting traces of prehistoric tailed eagle

Australian paleontologists believe that they have discovered evidence of a prehistoric sharp-tailed eagle in the Western Australian Plain of Nullarbor, which was previou…

December 17, 2018
The oldest wood fossil
Archeology

The oldest wood fossil

Scientists say they have found the two oldest known fossil plant samples that humans have collected. A sample found in Newbrunn (Canada) and a sample found in France.

December 17, 2018
The oldest nail in the world
Archeology

The oldest nail in the world

According to the American Journal of Athropology, the world's oldest nail, 55.8 million years ago, belongs to a species of extinct primitive named Teihardina brandti.

December 17, 2018
China found 7 million years old bird fossils
Archeology

China found 7 million years old bird fossils

The Hezheng Animal Fossil Museum in Gansu Province, northwestern China on August 19 said it had discovered the intact fossil of a bird dating back more than 7 million ye…

December 17, 2018
Found life on Mars from microbial fossils
Archeology

Found life on Mars from microbial fossils

Researchers discovered fossils of microorganisms at Strelley in Western Australia, dating back 3.4 billion years before land and oxygen atmosphere on Earth, reinforcing…

December 17, 2018
Dinosaurs are hot-blooded and active
Archeology

Dinosaurs are hot-blooded and active

Professor Roger Seymour works at the School of Environmental Science & Earth, University of Adelaide, Australia, has applied the latest theories of anatomy and physiolog…

December 17, 2018
What color does prehistoric birds have?
Archeology

What color does prehistoric birds have?

Recently, scientists have identified and detected pigmented particles called melanosomes in bird fossils very early as well as in some dinosaurs and they predict the col…

December 17, 2018
Found fossil lizard 120 million years old
Archeology

Found fossil lizard 120 million years old

A 120 million-year-old fossil has just been found in rocky mountains in northeastern China. This is the first fossil of a pregnant lizard found.

December 17, 2018
Finding dinosaur fossils are pregnant
Archeology

Finding dinosaur fossils are pregnant

Scientists at the University of London discovered in China that a female dinosaur has more than a dozen embryos growing well in the abdomen.

December 17, 2018