4+ day, 1+ 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, 15+ hour ago   (714+ words) Discover a haven for wildlife and people in the heart of London. Journey beneath the waves and meet some of the fiercest marine reptiles that have ever lived. Our research themes focus our work so we can find solutions to…...

5+ day, 11+ 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…...

6+ day, 17+ min 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…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (241+ words) Dorothea Bate’s contributions to palaeontology and women in science celebrated Dorothea Bate, one of the first women employed by the Natural History Museum, is being honoured with a blue plaque, marking her significant contributions to palaeontology. The plaque will be…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (502+ words) Dorothea Bate was one of the first women employed by the Natural History Museum and made major discoveries that transformed our understanding of prehistoric animals A fossil hunter who was one of the first women to be employed by the…...

6+ day, 2+ 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, 23+ 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…...