3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (648+ words) One of the oldest known 3D animal fossils dating back 560 million years has been found in a sheep field. The astonishing discovery of the creature that looked like a "goo-filled bag" when it was alive was made in northern Norway. Scientists…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (317+ words) A fossil hunter who helped reshape how scientists understand prehistoric life has been honoured with a national blue plaque at the Natural History Museum in Tring, Hertfordshire. Dorothea Bate, one of the first women employed by the museum, is being…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (377+ words) Buried in volcanic mud on a remote island off Antarctica, scientists uncovered something no one expected to find on the frozen continent: a single, coin-sized footprint unlike anything ever recorded there. A research team has just discovered a single fossilized…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (532+ words) A pioneering fossil hunter who was one of the first women to be employed by the National History Museum has been recognised with a national blue plaque. Dorothea Bate, who died in 1951 aged 72, "transformed our understanding of prehistoric animals and…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (400+ words) Buried beneath the seafloor near Antarctica for 68 million years, a single fossil egg is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about ancient reptiles. It has no skeleton, no obvious owner, and a shape that doesn't match anything paleontologists expected to…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (780+ words) Cape Shirreff is dark rock, gray sand and a wind that does not stop. The beach runs about sixteen hundred feet, and the surf works over whatever the water leaves on it. On a January afternoon a man walking that…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (512+ words) The first trace of a predatory mammal aged 55 million years has been found in Antarctica inkorr.com The first trace of a predatory mammal aged 55 million years has been found in Antarctica Discovery of a fossilized footprint on King George…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago   (646+ words) A school nature club fossicking on the shore of Kawhia Harbour in 2006 thought they had found a rusty boat propeller set in the mudstone — it took scientists 15 years to name what the children had actually dug out: a new species…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (444+ words) ROSS Dullard says there are fossils out there for other amateur palaeontologists to find, but it is important that people follow the rules. The Jan Juc resident and Anglesea Primary School principal found the skull of an unusual type of…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (302+ words) What actually emerged from this egg is still unknown. 68 million years ago, at the edge of the Late Cretaceous, an enormous marine reptile laid an egg near the shore of the landmass that is now Antarctica. When that egg hatched…...