Tag: Fossil Friday

This dino was not armed, but still very dangerous!

The presence of an enamel layer is one of the key distinguishing features between the two.

It might not look like much today, but in its time, this animal was the height of dangerous!

It's an incredible find.

This was not an animal you'd have liked to meet!

Precious little material has been found of this dino, but what we have points to a huge beast.

The discovery could help us understand why giraffes evolved such long necks.

It's safe to say that mountaintops are not the usual place where you'd find marine fossils.

The fossil was preserved in stunningly good condition.

The specimen gives us insight into a critical time in the Earth's history.

The fossil was discovered in 1975 in North Dakota alongside a Triceratops.

This specimen pushes the history of squids, cuttlefish, and octopi back by over 80 million years.

"If it doesn't work, build bigger" is a tried and true maxim.

The people have spoken!

Not the first place you'd expect to find a whale, isn't it?

The history of bats is surprisingly mysterious. These teeth keep that tradition.

Well, that's one way to last forever, I guess.

Just goes to show: even when you're in deep, there's always hope of enduring.

Hey, we get data wherever we can.

Good things come to those who dig.

Haven't we all fallen for this at one point in our lives?

You never know when a Plesiosaurus is close. One could be behind you right now.

This would make cephalopods one of the earliest multicellular organisms on the planet.

Who says you need to do great things to be remembered?

To be honest it probably ran away from them, not with them.

If you like seeing defined shapes, you should thank this little fellow.

Not all birds are of a feather, it turns out.

A set of fossils collected 35 years ago belonged to the oldest-known scorpion species to date, a new study reports. ...

We didn't even think it was possible to find one up to now.