Search fossil research and resources

2+ hour, 22+ min ago  (244+ words) Published June 3, 2026 The Placer County Library will kick off its annual Summer Reading Program on June 7, inviting readers of all ages to participate in a dinosaur-themed adventure designed to encourage reading, literacy and lifelong learning. The 2026 program, themed "Jurassic Summer…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (622+ words) An unexpected haul of nearly 500 fossilized fish in Egypt provides an unprecedented picture of how sea life rebounded from the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Paleontologists excavating a 62. 2-million-year-old rock layer in Egypt have uncovered a petrified aquarium. The unexpected…...

2+ hour, 1+ min ago  (1138+ words) In the wake of the catastrophic asteroid impact roughly 66 million years ago, which famously led to the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs, the aquatic realm'and specifically the evolutionary trajectory of marine fishes'has remained shrouded in mystery. This perplexity chiefly stems…...

1+ hour, 30+ min ago  (1249+ words) Fossils from Britain confirm Praearcturus gigas was a giant scorpion more than a meter long in the Early Devonian. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4. 0) A giant predator was stalking what is now Britain roughly 415 million years ago, long before forests spread…...

4+ hour, 3+ min ago  (352+ words) image: Image of the frozen cave lion cub named Sparta, which has been radiocarbon dated to ca 32, 000 years before present and genetically identified as a female. Sparta was found in 2018 in Belaya Gora, near the Indigirka River in northeastern Siberia,…...

1+ hour, 34+ min ago  (781+ words) Bioengineer. org Ancient Genomes Uncover the Remarkable History of the Extinct Cave Lion A groundbreaking study recently published in the prestigious journal Cell has illuminated the intricate evolutionary history of the extinct cave lion, shedding new light on this majestic…...

3+ hour, 23+ min ago  (901+ words) The crocodile's body plan feels like it was designed once and never touched. Low to the ground, with four short legs and a mouth built for clamping down hard. It looks like a creature that found the formula and stopped…...

1+ hour, 36+ min ago  (191+ words) Exceptionally preserved fossils from a 62. 2-million-year-old site show that modern marine fish communities were already established just 4 million years after dinosaur extinction image: Illustration of the Qreiya 3 fauna view more Illustration of the Qreiya 3 fauna "Many fossils from Qreiya 3 can…...

5+ hour, 1+ min ago  (347+ words) I sat on the tan, dusty ground of the quarry in north central Iowa, fingers grasping at the shell that lay halfway buried in the chalky clay and limestone. Wiggling it back and forth, I gently pulled it up from…...

2+ hour, 17+ min ago  (1430+ words) Starting in an arid, desert landscape, we trekked to a small opening in the earth, where rattlesnakes sometimes cool themselves. One by one, we slipped into the cavern and made our way underground. From recently discovered beetles to steep drops…...