Fossil

Anacondas are among the largest living snakes in the world. They are usually 4 to 5 m long…

The Lamniformes are an order of sharks commonly known as mackerel sharks. It includes some of the most…

A new species of the sauropod dinosaur genus Mamenchisaurus has been discovered in China dating back to the…

In 2009, paleoanthropologists found eight bones from the foot of an ancient human ancestor in 3.4-million-year-old sediments at…

Paleontologists have analyzed an exceptionally long sauropod trackway at the West Gold Hill Dinosaur Tracksite in Colorado, the…

The exceptionally long neck of Lijiangosaurus yongshengensis contained 42 cervical vertebrae, according to a research team led by…

Professor Ewan Fordyce was a vertebrate palaeontologist who had a 40-year career in the University of Otago’s department…

“Earth can no longer sustain the development model based on the intensive use of fossil fuels that has…

For a long time, scientists believed that parasitic relationships between marine species developed much later in Earth’s history.…

Lichens are symbioses between fungi and algae (and/or cyanobacteria) that play important ecological roles and colonize many substrates,…

Paleontologists have identified a new Early Miocene species of the rhinocerotid genus Epiaceratherium from the fossilized remains found…

Paleontologists have found the 2.9-cm-long fossilized foot bone of a possible bowerbird species at the Miocene locality of…

Fossils from Venezuela Reveal Early Origin of Gigantism in Anacondas