Tag: fossil

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.

The fossil might represent a transitional stage between foot-powered and tail-powered swimming in modern whales.

"It's not very often that we're challenging ideas that are almost two hundred years old," says the team.

"When the good news is that emissions growth is slower than last year, we need help," the researchers explain.

It takes me longer to even decide to go to the dentist.

A treasure trove of fossilized dinosaur and bird feathers has been recovered in Australia. In ages long past, however, these ...

It had teeth.

The fossil forest, which is larger than Grand Central Station, is the earliest example of a forest in Asia.

It's amazing what you can do with one fossil.

Size isn't everything.

The huge bone belonged to one of the largest creatures to ever walk on land.

Do you think it was tasty, too?

The bird's hyper-elongated third toe is longer than its whole lower leg, the authors report.

Between three and six such species have existed in the past.

There goes Jurassic Park!

A common fish behavior evolved at least 50 million years ago.

They might also rewrite the history of megaraptors as we know them.

Ca-CAW!

This dinosaur was more like a flying squirrel than a bird.

A smaller relative to the king of the dinosaurs.

It's nearly 100 million years old.

How is it possible for something with those eyes to ever go extinct? How? Why?!

It pays to stick your nose in museum drawers!

If you like cool photos of fossils, we've got just the paper for you!

The team says it looked more like a dolphin than a crocodile.

It was probably really polite and liked hockey, too.

It's one of the most spectacular findings in recent history.

A unique find that sheds new light on the reproductive abilities of ancient birds.

Take a bite out of this story.

Archaeopteryx remains a key link in dinosaur-bird evolution, but maybe it wasn't all that unique.

" teeth are the size of a sand grain. Without a microscope you'd just throw them away," says one of ...