518-Million-Year-Old Fossil Challenges What We Thought Starfish Came From
Artist’s impression of Yujingia glutenotunica. Credit: Kaiyue He et al. A creature preserved for 518 million years hints…
New Gobi Desert Fossil Rewrites a Chapter of Mammal Evolution
Tamirkhan balcarceli (skull and partial hindlimb) – credit, Nicole Wong / © AMNH A remarkably well-preserved fossil from…
One of Earth’s Oldest Animal Fossils Found in a Norwegian Sheep Field
Sheep in a field in Finnmark, Norway. Credit: Yorick Veenma One of the oldest known animal fossils preserved…
A 9-Million-Year-Old Tooth Just Challenged What Scientists Thought They Knew About the Atacama Desert
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of a group of Cardiatherium, a genus of extinct, direct relatives of modern capybaras, pictured in…
Fossilized Vomit Reveals a Surprising Secret About Plesiosaur Behavior
Artist’s impression of plesiosaurs feeding on the sea floor. Credit: Lente ArtemieffUnusual fossils from an ancient North Sea…
90-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals a Small Dinosaur Living Along Japan’s Coast
Iguanodontians were a diverse group of plant-eating dinosaurs that thrived from the Late Jurassic through the Late Cretaceous.…
Evidence of Ancient Sharks Found Buried in the Egyptian Desert
Millions of years ago, marine life flourished in waters that spread across what is now Egypt’s Western Desert.…
Construction Crew Uncovers Giant 20-Meter Dinosaur in Brazil
Artistic reconstruction of the new dinosaur from Maranhão state. It was 20 meters long and had a European…
‘Earliest evidence’ of elephant butchery at Olduvai Gorge shared in new study
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‘Earliest evidence’ of elephant butchery at Olduvai Gorge shared in new study
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Elephants are widely adored by many people today — but…
This 518-Million-Year-Old Creature Reveals How Spiders Got Their Bite
Artist’s impression of Urokodia. Credit: Xiaodong Wang Scientists from the University of Leicester and Yunnan University identified an…
Forgotten for 20 Years, This 240-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals a New Reptile Species
Part of the fossil was accidentally lost for more than two decades. Its rediscovery allowed the animal to…