Animal fossils from 240 million years ago found in Poland Polish scientists have discovered the remains of over a thousand specimens of extinct animals from about 240 million years ago. Among them are the bones of a reptile unknown to…
490-Million-Year-Old Trilobites Could Solve Ancient Geography Puzzle Ten newly discovered species of trilobites, hidden for 490 million years in a little-studied part of Thailand, could be the missing pieces in an intricate puzzle of ancient world geography. Trilobites are extinct…
Astonishing 15-Million-Year-Old Spider Fossil Is The Second Largest Ever Found Found at McGraths Flat, NSW, a fossil site known for its iron-rich rock called “goethite,” the new genus of spider is the first ever spider fossil of the Barychelidae family to be found. The…
48-Million-Year-Old Fossil: Insect Inside Lizard Inside Snake Reveals Prehistoric Battle of Food Chain Palaeontologists have uncovered a fossil that has preserved an insect inside a lizard inside a snake – a prehistoric battle of the food chain that ended in…
Flipping Amazing! Father-of-four Discovers 8,000-Year-Old Dolphin Bones While Digging a Pool in His Back Garden A man has discovered 8,000-year-old dolphin bones while digging in his back garden. Paul McDonald, 44, was digging a swimming pool for his children when…
70-million-year-old dinosaur baby unearthed in China is one of the best-preserved fossils ever found A 70-million-year-old fossil of a complete baby dinosaur in its egg, apparently just a few days before it would have hatched, shows the remarkable similarities between…
28,000-Year-Old Cave Lion Cub with Whiskers and Claws Found Frozen in Siberia A perfectly preserved cave lion cub found frozen in Siberia has been confirmed as a female that died 28,000 years ago, by a new study into the creatures…
Timeless Beauty: Journey into the Past with a 30 Million-Year-Old Praying Mantis Encased in Pristine Amber Embedded within a clear piece of amber, a small praying mantis sits at attention, frozen forever in time. The piece, which measures just slightly…
Fossilized teeth dating back 9.7 million years could ‘rewrite’ human history Scientists have announced the shock discovery in Germany of ancient teeth fossils that are nearly 10 million years old, and which they say don’t fit in with our established…
7.2-million-year-old pre-human fossils challenge modern human evolution theory The first hominin species, a line that eventually leads to humans, may have emerged in Europe 7.2 million years ago and not Africa—the most widely accepted starting point for our ancestors. An…