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 a volcanic lake some 48 million years ago. Pulled from an abandoned quarry in southwest … Read more
Huge 6.5-FOOT thigh bone belonging to ‘world’s biggest dinosaur’ found in France – and it weighs 500 kilos Palaeontologists have unearthed a 6.5 foot-long (two metre) thigh bone that belonged to a giant sauropod dinosaur around 140 million years ago. The enormous bone — which weighs in at around half a tonne — was unearthed … Read more
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 timeline of human history. What’s causing a commotion is the researchers say one of these … Read more