Ca-CAW!
Fossil Friday: earliest known millipede found in piece of Burmese amber
It’s nearly 100 million years old.
Fossil Friday: newly-discovered Callichimaera perplexa is an adorable, weird crab
How is it possible for something with those eyes to ever go extinct? How? Why?!
Fossil Friday: massive, ancient African carnivore found in a drawer in Kenya
It pays to stick your nose in museum drawers!
Fossil Friday: Jurassic crocodile shows us how the scaly killers came to be
The team says it looked more like a dolphin than a crocodile.
Fossil Friday: the tiniest, most adorable Tylosaurus skull ever found
IT’S. SO. TINY!
Largest pterosaur jaw ever found, recognized three decades after discovery in Transylvania
What’s with the long face?
10 of the Weirdest Prehistoric Creatures
Eons ago, many millennia before written history, bizarre animals roamed the Earth.
Beautifully preserved fossil reveals a new 430-million-year old crustacean species, gets named in honor of Sir Attenborough’s 90th birthday
Sir Attenborough really liked the name.
#FossilFriday: 34-million-year old wasp fossil
It’s as beautiful as it likely was annoying.
Paleontologists find ‘incredibly rare’ 52 million year-old fossilized berry
Geoscientists working in South America have uncovered an ancient berry.
Fossil Friday: the first dino brain (we’ve ever found)
We didn’t even think it was possible to find one up to now.
#FossilFriday: The scent of a 54-million-year-old insect
An ancient pheromone spray.
Fossil Friday: the earliest known shells from 809 million years ago
Shifting ocean chemistry and predatory pressure made organisms bunker up for the first time.
Fossil Friday: the bug inside the lizard inside the snake
Always go for a meal before you fossilize.
Fossil Friday: C. Megalodon, the true Jaws
The biggest fish in the pond.
#FossilFriday: opalized belemnite
Belemnites were extinct cephalopods with a squid-like body.
Fossil Friday: Sciurumimus albersdoerferi, the single-fossil theropod
There’s only one fossil of this dinosaur that we ever found — and you’re looking at it.
#FossilFriday: Geode Fossil
This is a beautiful geodized fossil – a sea snail fossil filled up by a yellowish calcite geode. The fossil is part of the Busycon genus – a genus of large, generally edible sea snails. These snails are commonly known in the United States as whelks or Busycon whelks. This fossil was reportedly taken from the Anastasia Formation in Florida, USA — a
Fossil friday: Platycrinus saffordi, the sea lily
Though they’re known as sea lilies, crinoids are animals not plants. Think of them as starfish-on-a-stick: they are filter-feeding sea floor echinoderms, and relatively common as fossils go. Crinoids as a group aren’t extinct, but are relatively uncommon in modern oceans.
