Tag: fossil

It's the first example of a habitat-selective creature from the Ediacaran Period.

Megabyte, Gigabyte, Trilobite.

The tooth is almost two million years old.

Sometimes, doing yard work is very conducive to science.

Not bad for a Fossil Friday!

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

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.

The auction, although a commercial success, raises questions about whether fossils should be up for sale.

Early birds get fossilized!

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

These are only the second and third species of spinosaurids discovered in the UK.

Maybe one was a young Picasso

Turtle eggs are usually small and fragile -- but this one was big and tough.

Now we need to confirm that these were indeed sea sponges.

Not a mean feat at all.

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

Gives Florida man a run for his money.

The odds of a fossil being near you is never quite zero.

Parents everywhere can probably relate.

He was one chompy boy.

They nicknamed it 'Monkeydactyl', just in case you thought researchers act like adults.

Sometimes, not adapting is the best adaptation.

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

Big, bold, and old.

A bizzare, never-before-seen form of preservation could shed new light on a primeval type of bird.

So, uhm, what have you done lately?

“He’s just big-boned, alright?”

New research on fossilized snake remains unearthed in Germany points to our favorite constrictor snake having evolved in Europe. Today, ...

It had an interesting, spiral-like arrangement.

Geologically speaking, Ireland is not conducive to finding dinosaur fossils.

The fossils were at first (mistakenly) identified as being an ancient chameleon.

Sometimes, it's best to admit that we simply don't know the right answer (yet).

Imagine how many nuggets you could make from one of these.

In the end, it didn’t live up to the name!

Not all mummies are human.

This was one strange beast... Well, two beasts.

A foray millions of years into the past.

Better understanding of such fossils lets us peer into the geological past.

The dinosaur belonged to a family of pterodactyls called tapejarids.

The fossil is around 75 million years older than the oldest millipede we've found before.

All European corporations have made pledges but they have been overstated, study claims.

Fossilized behaviors are extremely rare finds.

A newly-discovered dinosaur species from New Mexico is one of the last raptors to have walked the Earth, researchers report ...

It's tiny.

They call it the Wonderchicken!

A new paper describing the foot of a lizard preserved in amber broadens our understanding of the fossilization processes. The ...

Fossil footprints from the Karoo Basin of southern Africa could teach us more about how ecosystems respond to truly massive ...

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

"The future mammal record will be mostly cows, pigs, sheep, goats, dogs, cats, etc., and people themselves," the authors note.