32+ min ago  (470+ words) New evidence from Germany suggests Neanderthals captured European pond turtles (Emys orbicularis) around 125, 000 years ago, likely valuing their shells as tools rather than their modest meat yield. The European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) next to the foot of the straight-tusked…...

5+ hour, 43+ min ago  (683+ words) The fossil is actually a species related to a modern Nautilus, a multi-tentacled animal with an external shell. (Dr. Thomas Clements via SWNS) A 300-million-year-old fossil hailed as the world's oldest "octopus" has turned out to be something else altogether....

7+ hour, 25+ min ago  (439+ words) The word octopus has now shifted from a record-breaking label to a test case for how science revises its own history. A 300-million-year-old fossil once treated as the oldest known octopus has been reidentified, and the change matters because it…...

11+ hour, 37+ min ago  (877+ words) Whether they identify as Chicano, Latino or Hispanic, for ma" In Delta County, over 60 murals tell stories of the past and" If you want to see dinosaur tracks in Western Colorado, most people in the know will send you along…...

1+ hour, 55+ min ago  (517+ words) A few days after celebrating it's one year anniversary of being officially open to the public, the Edelman Fossil Park and Museum has decided to celebrate by introducing long-awaited discounts for Rowan University students. The discount was announced in an…...

2+ hour, 19+ min ago  (830+ words) A fast, land-running relative of crocodiles has emerged from a 215-million-year-old fossil found in England nearly 60 years ago. That animal changes early croc evolution by showing these hunters were already splitting into different running styles before the end-Triassic die-off. In…...

6+ hour, 33+ min ago  (335+ words) Teton Valley News This week we are going to rely more on pictures than text, hoping that a picture is worth a thousand words. Recently Joyce Mears provided an interesting image to Teton Valley News to learn if what she…...

6+ hour, 22+ min ago  (482+ words) A mysterious line of giant footprints has emerged in eastern France, preserved for millions of years. At first glance they seem simple, yet researchers say they hold clues that go far beyond their shape. A 508-foot trail of fossilized dinosaur…...

7+ hour, 22+ min ago  (193+ words) image: 289-million-year-old reptile Captorhinus in its death pose in a cave system. Oil seepages, hyper-mineralized water, fine clays in this cave made it an ideal environment formummification and fossilization of soft tissues like skin, cartilage, and protein remnants. view more…...

5+ hour, 26+ min ago  (1706+ words) Hidden just off US-160 near Tuba City, Arizona, the Navajo Moenave Dinosaur Tracks site is one of the most jaw-dropping roadside stops in the entire Southwest. Around 200 million years ago, real dinosaurs walked across soft, muddy ground here, leaving behind…...