Scientists find skull of enormous ancient dolphin in Amazon
Fossil of giant river dolphin found in Peru, whose closest living relation is in South Asia, gives clues to future extinction threats Scientists have discovered...
Category : Fossils
Plant fossils turn out to be turtles in ‘unusual misidentification’
Re-examination finds what were taken to be veins of leaves are actually bone growth patterns Two small, oval fossils thought to be prehistoric plants are...
New Mexico footprints are oldest sign of humans in Americas, research shows
Fossil footprints date back to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago, upending previous theory that humans reached continent later New research confirms that fossil human...
Giant sloth pendants indicate humans settled Americas much earlier than thought
Scientists studied jewelry made from now extinct creatures and theorize that humans arrived in Americas 27,000 years ago New research suggests humans lived in South...
‘The sheer scale is extraordinary’: meet the titanosaur that dwarfs Dippy the diplodocus
One of the largest creatures to have walked the Earth is to become the Natural History Museum’s new star attraction It will be one of...
‘Alien goldfish’ may have been unique mollusc, say scientists
Researchers think they may have solved enduring mystery of where Typhloesus wellsi sits on tree of life The mystery of a bizarre creature dubbed the...
Discovery of small armoured dinosaur in Argentina is first of its kind
Jakapil kaniukura was about 5ft long and probably walked upright in then-steamy Patagonian landscape about 100m years ago Palaeontologists have announced the discovery of a...
Early human ancestors one million years older than earlier thought
Fossils from South African cave are 3.4 to 3.6m years old and walked the Earth at same time as east African relatives The fossils of...
Scientists find perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a bird
At least 66m-year-old fossil discovered in southern China reveals posture previously unseen in dinosaurs Scientists have announced the discovery of an exquisitely preserved dinosaur embryo...
