Fossils
Ancient fossil fills a 75 million-year gap and rewrites lizard and snake history
A new study of an ancient fossil has found it to be the earliest lizard known, so far. It shows they survived one the greatest mass extinctions on...
one year ago
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It's less than 2cm long, but this 400-million-year-old fossil fish changes our view of vertebrate evolution
A 400-million-year-old fossilised fish skull gives us very early and previously unknown clues about how boney fishes evolved into the vertebrates we...
2 years ago
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This giant tortoise was chomped by an ancient mystery croc
A prehistoric murder mystery...
2 years ago
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That time a prehistoric shark took a bite out of a turd
The one-of-a-kind story of an ancient shark that broke a tooth off on a croc turd.
2 years ago
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Hundreds of fossilised eggs reveal the nesting habits of ancient flying reptiles
Some of the eggs even had the remains of pterosaur embryos preserved inside!
2 years ago
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In Siberia, a perfectly preserved frozen cave-lion cub
The little cave lion has been frozen in time by the Siberian permafrost for at least 20,000 years.
2 years ago
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Meet the giant dinosaur that roamed southern Africa 200 million years ago
A research team has unearthed evidence of a huge carnivorous dinosaur that once roamed southern Africa.
2 years ago
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The punny, the peculiar & the unpronounceable: The best prehistoric animal names
When it comes to naming ancient species, some palaeontologists have a little more fun than others.
2 years ago
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'Mummified' salamander fossil reveals its organs – and its last meal
Fossilised "last meals" are incredibly rare! And according to scientists, this is the oldest known example of a frog-eating salamander.
2 years ago
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There's a lot to learn about dinosaur brains
CT scans are helping palaeontologists get inside dinosaurs' heads.
2 years ago
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Did toxic algae kill these dinosaurs?
Fossils of dinosaurs and other ancient creatures unearthed from 70-million-year-old rock in Madagascar tell a potentially toxic tale.
2 years ago
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Fossil forensics: Two ancient lizards, two amber-encased mysteries
Two ancient lizards entombed long ago in amber represent two palaeontological mysteries waiting to be solved.
2 years ago
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How did dinosaur eggs survive in the Arctic?
Dinosaurs once occupied just about every corner of the planet, from the northern reaches of Alaska and Siberia all the way down to the Antarctic. So...
2 years ago
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The riddle of the upside-down dinosaurs
Some fossil mysteries are solved by palaeontologists and ... armadillo experts?!
2 years ago
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These Jurassic "squirrels” were the first creatures of their kind to go airborne
Ancient “squirrels” figured out how to fly 100 million years before true mammals did.
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