Tag: fossil

Always go for a meal before you fossilize.

It took two generations to bring this fossil to light.

The biggest fish in the pond.

Museum collections are riddled with valuable specimens.

A small tooth in a fecal sample confirms that the fierce predator ate its young.

Bones to stones.

There's only one fossil of this dinosaur that we ever found -- and you're looking at it.

Crinoids are sometimes referred to as sea lillies because of their resemblance to a plant or flower. But this fossil ...

A new discovery may place the first appearance of complex life on Earth a full billion years earlier than previously ...

Kinda looks like the Sarlacc, doesn't it? Well take your geek hat off cause it isn't a sarlacc. Now put ...

Diptera are still alive and kickin' today, and some of them are getting coated in amber as we speak! A ...

When a species almost one hundred times bigger than you, who has access to nukes and can go to space, ...

Sauropods, or some titanosaurs at least, were not the best parents. A recent analysis of juvenile fossils belonging to a ...

Helicoprion is an extinct genus of shark-like, cartilaginous fish that lived from the early Permian (~290 m.y. ago) all through ...

British paleontologists have identified a tiny, ancient animal that carried around its young tethered in capsules around its body, like ...

Scientists have identified a 1.5 cm creature that predates the dinosaurs by 100 million years. While not exactly a spider, ...

Ammonite fossils are among the most common in the world, with their characteristic shape and chambered shell. But did you ...

We judge our planet's biological past by using geological evidence - fossils. Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of ...

Exactly six decades ago, an amateur fossil hunter called Francis Tully came across an usual find some 50 miles south ...

We've seen unfortunate insects trapped in amber time and time again, but this time it's something else. This time, a ...

Belemnites are an extinct order of cephalopods ("cephalo" meaning head and "pod" meaning leg) that lived during the Mesozoic era, ...

It was a finding that sent ripples throughout the entire paleontology community. Met with heavy criticism, the authors are now ...

Researchers have found new fauna in northern Brazil, in what used to be the continent of Gondwana.

Archaeologists have discovered fossils of rats 10 times bigger than modern rats. Working with the Australian National University (ANU), the team ...

Paleontologists believe they have found the oldest evidence of the bubonic plague, embedded in a flea trapped in amber for ...

Trilobites were some of the most dominant creatures on the face of the planet, thriving from the mid Cambrian 521 ...

Scientists from the Smithsonian have a surprising fossil dating about 6 million years old. The fossil seems to have been ...

This bizarre creature looks like a cross between a scorpion and a boat, which is pretty accurate considering it was ...

Anthropologists have discovered the oldest known fossil of a bone resembling that of humans; the 1.85 million year old bone is ...

Finding insects, plants or even dinosaur feathers trapped in amber s rare and exciting. But finding a fossil salamander in ...

Before the Cambrian, more than 541 million years ago, intriguing creatures named rangeomorphs that grew up to 2 meters dwelt ...

Fossils of an elasmosaur, a rare type of plesiosaur were discovered in Alaska by Anchorage-based fossil collector Curvin Metzler. Researchers ...

Paleontologists working in China have discovered fossils of an impressively armored worm that lived during the Cambrian, 500 million years ...

An Alberta citizen discovered a trove of rare fossilized fish while digging up his basement. But Edgar Nernberg isn't a ...

Geologists have found a praying-mantis-like cockroach that lived at the side by side with the dinosaurs, 100 million years ago, during the ...

Fossil hunting can be exciting and highly rewarding, but sometimes, fossils are also found through a fluke. Jeff Dornbusch, a volunteer ...

It was about as big as T-Rex, but not quite as fit - new fossils have revealed that Deinocheirus mirificus had quite a ...

Paleontologists have identified the first known animals that used internal fertilization instead of spawning - armor-coated swimmers, called antiarchs, which lived ...

Early developmental stages of Megasphaera. Xiao et al. Some bizarre spherical fossils found in China may be remnants of some of ...

Would you believe me if I told you that under this rusty, abandoned metal cap there lies the deepest hole ...

Researchers have discovered the earliest evidence of a bird pollinator visiting flowers, presumably to feed on the nectar - if ...

Area A at Happisburgh: View of footprint surface looking south, also showing underlying horizontally bedded laminated silts. (c) PLOS ONE ...

During the Mesozoic, dinosaurs weren't just roaming the land - giant reptiles, such as mosasaurs and ichthyosaurs, ruled the seas. ...

Imagine salmon in reverse: long-snouted Bandringa sharks migrated downstream from freshwater swamps to a tropical coastline to spawn 310 million ...

Cats, dogs, as well as many well known and loved wild animals such as seals, lions, tigers and bears trace ...

  Most fossils are very fragile, difficult to handle and transport Researchers conducted CT scans on fossils still trapped in ...

An international team of researchers led by Ralf Tappert, from the University of Innsbruck, reconstructed the composition of Earth's atmosphere ...

(c) PLOS ONE Fossils that capture a kinetic moment are truly fascinating because they surprise a scene or picture from ...

Crossing  the riverbed of Carrizo Creek in Oklahoma, a series of tracks made by a two-legged dinosaur have been preserved ...

A giant platypus fossil, measuring more than 1m long (3ft) was discovered in Queensland, Australia. The animal lived 5-15 million ...