4+ hour, 15+ min ago  (369+ words) Latest news from Azerbaijan Germany to return rare Irritator dinosaur skull to Brazil A 113-million-year-old fossilized skull is at the center of a landmark restitution agreement between Germany and Brazil. The Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History, which acquired the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (649+ words) Feels like: 13. 3 C13. 3 F | Partly cloudy An amateur fossil hunter who found a rare fragment from the world's oldest marine crocodile said she thought it was a piece of wood with nails driven through it. The upper jawbone fossil, found during…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (366+ words) Feels like: 5. 1 C5. 1 F | Partly Cloudy More than two decades after scientists identified a fossil as the'world's oldest octopus" officials now say it wasn't one at all. A recent study published in the journal'Proceedings of the Royal Society B'found that the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (521+ words) Feels like: 2. 5 C2. 5 F | Overcast Researchers have discovered a 90-million-year-old fossil that sheds light on a long-standing mystery surrounding an unusual group of prehistoric animals. The discovery was led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities scientist Peter Makovicky along with Argentine…...