Search fossil research and resources

1+ hour, 26+ min ago  (952+ words) Home - Science - An exceptionally preserved 551-million-year-old site suggests the Avalon biota lasted longer than scientists believed, changing the timeline of Earth's earliest complex life For decades, many paleontologists thought they had the Ediacaran fossil record sorted. The oldest "Avalon" fossils…...

1+ hour, 56+ min ago  (668+ words) Paleontologists from Flinders University have been returning to this desert location for over 20 years to excavate the fossil-rich Namba Formation (Image: SWNS) Platypuses swam alongside dolphins 25 million years ago, according to an "exciting" new fossil discovery. Paleontologists made the rare…...

2+ hour, 26+ min ago  (266+ words) Scientists just named a new species of Spinosaurus. The fossils turned up somewhere that changes everything we thought we knew about how this predator lived. The crest is striking. But where the fossils turned up is what reshapes the science....

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (549+ words) You want to stick your finger in a dinosaur brain?" That was Simba Srivastava's first reaction to the battered fossil sitting in a paleobiology lab at Virginia Tech, a skull so crushed and twisted that he described it in less-than-flattering…...

12+ hour, 24+ min ago  (1036+ words) A giant dinosaur lay buried about eight meters below a construction site in northeastern Brazil, hidden in sediments so old that the first people to see its bones thought they might belong to Ice Age mammals. Instead, the remains turned…...

1+ hour, 56+ min ago  (633+ words) Platypuses swam alongside dolphins 25 million years ago, according to an "exciting" new fossil discovery. Paleontologists made the rare find east of the Flinders Ranges in remote outback South Australia. They say it demonstrates that ancient platypuses with well-developed teeth fed…...

3+ hour, 14+ min ago  (755+ words) Hundreds of millions of years before dinosaurs walked the planet, strange segmented creatures were already transforming Earth's surface. Among the earliest pioneers were the ancient centipede ancestors that helped establish life on land during one of evolution's most important turning…...

3+ hour, 15+ min ago  (620+ words) A newly identified ancient crocodile cousin is helping scientists better understand how early reptilian predators survived during the Triassic period. Preserved inside stone for around 210 million years, the fossil reveals a powerful land predator equipped with crushing jaws capable of…...

3+ hour, 56+ min ago  (355+ words) Two rare 17th-century books have been discovered and will soon become part of a school's history collection. The books surfaced at a Webuyvintage roadshow in Ledbury and will be donated to King Charles I School in Kidderminster, which shares historical…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago  (444+ words) The platypus, is often considered to be shy and meek. However, scientists in the Australian outback recently discovered an 'extremely rare' fossil that could give some eye opening glimpses to their evolution. Not Your Modern Day Platypus The platypus is…...