P aleontologists have uncovered fossils of a giant turtle species with some striking features, such as its shape, that lived ...
A new species of ancient turtle that swam the shores of Europe millions of years ago may have been one of the largest sea turtles to have ever lived, scientists have said. Fossilised remains of ...
May 3, 2024 — Researchers uncovered compelling evidence that Earth's magnetic field was in a highly unusual state when the macroscopic animals of the Ediacaran Period -- 635 to 541 million years ...
Jan. 10, 2024 — Picrodontids -- an extinct family of placental mammals that lived several million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs -- are not primates as previously ... Jan. 2, 2024 ...
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I’m a journalist specializing in the quirky side of science and space. Tridentinosaurus antiquus is a fossil with an enigmatic history ...
The research team, supported by the National Geographic Society, initially discovered the fossils in 2018. However, the findings were only recently published in the journal Cretaceous Research.
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I deal with the rocky road to our modern understanding of earth As Lovecraft inspired the authors of the discovery, fossils inspired some ...
The findings make Meghalaya the fifth state in India after Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu to report sauropod bones with Titanosaurian affinity ...
Militocodon lydae, a mammal that looked like a chinchilla but is more closely related cows, roamed what is now Colorado after the nonavian dinosaurs went extinct. Researchers in Colorado have ...
Sharks have been around for hundreds of millions of years, appearing in the fossil record before trees even existed. But what did they evolve from, are they 'living fossils', and how did they survive ...