Tag: fossil

Finding mosquitoes trapped in amber is truly exciting, but it's not really unique - there have been several reported cases ...

Paleontologists have scratched the surface of what appears to be a very promising dinosaur site near the Arctic circle, in ...

Though built in 1933, the Fossil Cabin near the dinosaur graveyard at Como Bluff is, in a way, the oldest ...

Land clearing and human habitation put significant pressure on local species - combine this with globalization and a general recklessness ...

A new, unusual species of dinosaur has been discovered in the deserts of Utah. Artistic representation of Nasuceratops. Credit: Raul ...

The fossil, which still retains impressions of feathers, is 160 million years old, predating the oldest Archaeopterix fossil found by ...

Paleontologists working at Ohio University have unearthed evidence of two new species of ancient primates, named Rukwapithecus fleaglei and Nsungwepithecus ...

While taking a walk with her parents on U.K.'s Isle of Wight (map) in 2008, Daisy Morris, who was then ...

Almost always I happen to discuss global warming, something that often comes up. Still, the Earth was hotter in its ...

Altai dog fossil skull. (c) PLos ONE New DNA analysis of an ancient dog tooth sample found in Siberia suggests ...

Paleontologists from the University of Florida have unearthed remarkably well-preserved fossils of two crocodilians and a mammal previously unknown to ...

Just one of the many reasons why I love geology - paleontologists have unearthed extraordinarily preserved fossils of a 520-million-year-old ...

(c) RAY TROLL 2013. (Photo : Flickr/Ryan Somma) In 1899 the famous Russian paleontologist Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky published a paper in which ...

The massive, global risk that global warming poses has once again been highlighted by researchers - this time, by geologists ...

Nyasasaurus parringtoni may have not been revered by other dinosaurs, but according to a new study published in Biology Letters, ...

Named after the almost all-powerful dark spirit from the Lord of The Rings, the Sauron dinosaurs roamed Africa some 95 ...

Well it may be a bit of overreaction, but with the Halloween and all, you just have to call it: ...

Scientists in Canada have made a remarkable discovery: they have unearthed the first fossils of a feathered dinosaur ever found ...

Remember when, back in May, we told you about a case with a dinosaur skeleton transferred from Mongolia to the ...

Last week we reported about a 300 million year old fossilized forest which was discovered underneath a coal mine in ...

There's some good coming off China's extensive coal exploitation (the nation holds the top place for most pollutant emissions resulting ...

The origins of life is one of the biggest mysteries scientists have been trying to unravel for a very long ...

The bond between man and dog has always been extremely evident, an unconditioned friendship, at least from the dog's part, which has ...

Fossilized moth wings, that are blue after death were yellow-green during lifetime, suggesting a colorful and creative method of camouflage. ...

Paleontologists have unearthed the remains of numerous whale fossils, dating back from seven million years ago,  in Northern Chile. On ...

A fresh look at some already known fossilized remains revealed quite a surprise: they turned out to be the earliest ...

As it turns out, zombies are not really only science fiction. Just a while ago I was telling you about ...

Paleontologists in South Africa have reported finding an extraordinary number of fossils of a species that predated humans, belonging to ...

The oldest, up to now, fossil has been found recently by a team of Australian and UK geologists, who claim ...

Anomalocaridids were extremely weird animals, by today's standards; but by the standards of the Cambrian, they were the hot guys. ...

An extremely old spider has showed its face for the first time in almost 50 million years; buried in a ...

A team of paleontologists from the Smithsonian Institute have uncovered the fossils of a brand new dinosaur species in Ghost ...

Fossil hunting is for anybody - no matter how old, or how knowledgeable; all you need is a little information ...

In a recent remarkable find in the war-torn country of Angola, archeologists have uncovered the fossil of what's considered a ...

Wherever it's possible, life finds a way; the old saying seems to be more and more actual these days, with ...

About 125 million years ago, these hunchback dinosaurs roamed today's central Spain, measuring approximately 6 meters and feasting off of ...

A recent study conducted by a Montana State University doctoral student and one of the world's top paleontologists shed some ...

An international team of researchers from the University of Leicester (UK), and the Geological Institute, Beijing (China) managed to identify ...

Art is a relative term, especially in these modern times. In its most accepted term, art is the deliberate process ...

    Well this is a bit of a stretch; the thing is an 87-million-year-old praying mantis was found encased ...