The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...
A 3.4M-year-old set of foot bones from Ethiopia is forcing paleoanthropologists to redraw one of the most familiar diagrams ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeopteryx Fossil Chicago One of the most famous fossil creatures in the world has just received a major glow-up. More than a ...
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A group of fossils of elasmosaurs – some of the most famous in North America – have just been formally identified as belonging to a “very odd” new genus of the sea monster, unlike any previously known ...
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Jane, the world-famous tyrannosaur fossil at the Burpee Museum of Natural History, may not be a Tyrannosaurus rex after all. A new study published in Nature by Lindsay Zanno of the North Carolina ...
Ancient fossils reveal the oldest known vertebrates had four eyes. Remarkably preserved fossil specimens show they could see the world using four camera-type eyes, reshaping our understanding of how ...
T. rex's story has been turned on its head by a new discovery about one of the world's most famous fossil finds. One of the creatures locked in the “Duelling Dinosaurs” specimen is not a young T. rex ...
Crystals hidden inside dinosaur eggs at a famous fossil site are giving scientists a chance to do something that’s long proven elusive: figure out how old the ancient nests really are. Finding these ...
Tyrannosaurus rex holotype specimen at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh. — ScottRobertAnselmo — CC BY-SA 3.0 Tyrannosaurus rex holotype specimen at the Carnegie Museum of Natural ...
The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.