400-Million-Year-Old Fossils of Enigmatic Jawed Vertebrate Unearthed in Australia
Palaeospondylus gunnia little animal with an eel-like body that lived throughout the Middle Devonian date around 390 million years earlier, is represented by countless likewise protected fossils from Achannaras quarry…
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98-Million-Year-Old Ichthyosaur Fossil Uncovered in New Zealand
Paleontologists in New Zealand have actually found a partial skeleton of platypterygiid ichthyosaur dating to the Cretaceous duration. A set of Platypterygius sp. Image credit: Dmitry Bogdanov/ CC BY 3.0….
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1.5 million-year-old footprints reveal our Homo erectus ancestors lived with a 2nd proto-human species
An aerial photo of excavated footprints, with research study staff member standing along with. (Image credit: Louise N. Leakey, Turkana Basin Institute and Stony Brook University) In a fossil initially,…
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380 million-year-old remains of giant fish found in Australia. Its ‘living fossil’ descendant, the coelacanth, is still alive today.
The coelacanthNgamugawi wirngarriin its Devonian reef environment. (Image credit: Katrina Kenny) What do the ginkgo (a tree), the nautilus (a molluscand the coelacanth (a fishall share? They do not look…
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80 million-year-old dinosaur ‘mini eggs’ unearthed at Chinese construction site are the smallest ever found — and belong to a never-before-seen T. rex relative
6 eggs coming from the freshly recognized theropod types Minioolithus ganzhouensis were found at a building website near Ganzhou. The tiniest was simply 1.1 inches broad. (Image credit: China University…
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365-Million-Year-Old Winged Seed Fossil Found in China
Called Alasemenia triathe brand-new specimen from the Wutong Formation in the Chinese province of Anhui go back to the Famennian phase of the Late Devonian date, making it the second-earliest…
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545-Million-Year-Old Crater Could Reshape Our Understanding of Earth’s Geological History
Geologists from Virginia Commonwealth University and somewhere else have actually discovered brand-new proof of bolide effect signatures within specimens from the Massive Australian Precambrian-Cambrian Impact Structure in the Northern Territory,…
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120-Million-Year-Old Footprints of Polar Dinosaurs Discovered in Australia
The newly-discovered footprints of theropod and ornithopod dinosaurs go back to the Early Cretaceous date, over 120 million years back, when Australia was still linked to Antarctica. Melissa Lowery and…
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