Archeology
Ancient amphibians have large teeth
In prehistoric times there was a crocodile-like carnivore that resided in the Antarctic region about 240 million years ago with large fangs at the edges of the mouth and…
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Ancient geese have hard teeth like bones
The 50 million-year-old skull revealed that the giant bird with a 5-meter wingspan, relatives of ducks and geese, had a rather strange trait: their beaks had bone-like h…
Archeology
Ingredients in the gut reveal the diet of dinosaurs
An analysis of the fossil's inner composition of an unusually well-preserved small dinosaur showed that the last meal included a lot of thoroughly chewed and digested le…
Archeology
New dinosaur species have horns in Alberta, Canada
The newly unearthed fossil reveals a group of dinosaurs killed in the disaster that happened 72.5 million years ago.
Archeology
The earliest footprint of animals
The fossil record of an aquatic animal shows that animals are walking at least 30 million years earlier than expected.
Archeology
Detecting complete bone fossils of a dinosaur
Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully restored the fossilized skeleton of an immature dinosaur from 70 million years ago.
Archeology
Fossils reveal Antarctica warmer than in the past
New discoveries about fossils collected at the East Antarctica of a college student show that the ice-cold region was much more pleasant.
Archeology
Finding fossilized prehistoric turtle fossils and eggs in South Alberta
Scientists at the University of Calgary and the Tyrrell Royal Paleontological Museum have recently discovered a 75-million-year-old fossil of a pregnant sea turtle.
Archeology
The 380-million-year-old fish fossil carries the fetus
In 2005, the Victoria museum expedition led by Dr. John Long went to the Gogo fossil excavation site in northwestern Australia. Here they obtained strange fossils, which…
Archeology
Discover the most original 4-legged fossil fossils
Scientists have unearthed a skull of the oldest four-legged creature in history, in the stone class of Latvia. This whole specimen has intermediate characteristics betwe…
Archeology
The discovery of the mammoth elephant fossil bone in Mexico
Archaeologists from Mexico's Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have discovered in La Piedra, Queretaro state, bordering the Mexican state to the north, a preh…
Archeology
Egyptian pyramid is full of shells
Many famous works of ancient Egypt, such as the Sphinx and Cheops pyramid, contain hundreds of thousands of sea fossils, most of them intact, lying dormant in walls, a n…
Archeology
Traces of dinosaurs are rare in the Arabian Peninsula
More than hundreds of dinosaur footprints have been discovered on the Arabian Peninsula, where similar fossils are extremely rare.
Archeology
Detection of feathers from the time of dinosaurs covered in amber
Seven feathers in perfect preservation in the recently discovered amber in France contain information about an extremely important stage in feather evolution. Scientists…