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The ichthyosaur specimen with its stomach contents visible as a block that extrudes from its body. Credit: Ryosuke Motani

Massive, well-preserved reptile found in the belly of a prehistoric marine carnivore

Geology Page - August 20, 2020

Meganeura

Meganeura : The largest insect ever existed was a giant dragonfly

Mammoth bones are pictured in Tultepec, Mexico in this handout photograph released by Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology (INAH)

Huge trove of mammoth skeletons found in Mexico

Ancient Armadillo

Ancient Armadillo The Size Of A Car Discovered By Farmer In Argentina

How Do Opalised Fossils Form?

Richest marine reptile fossil bed along Africa’s South Atlantic coast is...

Geology Page - May 16, 2014

Ancient rodent’s brain was big … but not necessarily ‘smart’

Geology Page - January 28, 2016

New instrument dates old skeleton; ‘Little Foot’ 3.67 million years old

Geology Page - April 2, 2015

Researcher finds dinosaur teeth more intricate than reptiles mammals

Geology Page - June 6, 2015

Fossilized marine plankton tell the tale of the end Permian mass...

Geology Page - August 16, 2014

Ammonites Found Mini Oases at Ancient Methane Seeps

Geology Page - August 23, 2012

Digital model of the skull of Leptarctus primus, showing reconstructed jaw muscle groups in red, yellow, and pink. The virtual muscles were activated in bite simulations to test the biomechanical capability of this extinct weasel relative.

Extinct weasel relative with confounding skull likely ate meat with a...

Geology Page - February 24, 2019

A partial skeleton of Lagerpeton (hips, leg, and vertebrae) from ~235 million years from Argentina. Further examination of this specimen helped tie features of lagerpetids to pterosaurs. Photo courtesy of Sterling Nesbitt. Credit: Virginia Tech

Paleontologists find pterosaur precursors that fill a gap in early evolutionary...

Geology Page - December 17, 2020

New Cretaceous fossils shed light on the early evolution of ants

Geology Page - June 1, 2016

Scientist unravels the mysteries of a beetle that lived nearly 100...

Geology Page - December 16, 2015

Newly discovered fossil sea urchin is the oldest of its kind

Geology Page - November 6, 2015

Reconstructions show how some of the earliest animals lived — and...

Geology Page - August 12, 2014

Modeling the vertebrate invasion of land

Geology Page - October 29, 2016

Ancient mammoth remains found in Switzerland

Geology Page - August 8, 2015

Unique Mosasaur fossil discovered in Japan

Geology Page - December 9, 2015

Oldest fossil sea turtle discovered

Geology Page - September 7, 2015

Slower evolution and climate change drove ichthyosaurs to extinction

Geology Page - March 9, 2016

Oldest fossils controversy resolved

Geology Page - April 20, 2015

Historic fossils find new life telling the story of ancient proteins

Geology Page - June 16, 2016

New ichthyosaur species, long gone, found in a storeroom

Geology Page - October 11, 2017

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The eruption of the Merapi on 11 May 2018. Credit: Université de Strasbourg/Uppsala University/Technical University of Munich/The University of Leeds/Universitas Gadjah Mada/German Research Center for Geosciences

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