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Chinese roadworkers unearth nest of Forty-Three fossilised dinosaur eggs

Geology Page - October 8, 2016

Giant extinct salmon fought with spike teeth during upriver spawning events

How Do Opalised Fossils Form?

The 170 million-year-old tracks were made in a muddy lagoon off the north-east coast of what is now the Isle of Skye Credit: University of Edinburgh/PA Wire

World’s largest dinosaur found in Scotland

A penis in amber

Fossil footprints challenge established theories of human evolution

Geology Page - September 4, 2017

First dinosaur bones found in Denali National Park

Geology Page - October 18, 2016

The newly described millipede (Burmanopetalum inexpectatum) seen in amber.

99-million-year-old millipede discovered in Burmese amber

Geology Page - May 2, 2019

Stromatolites

Geology Page - April 25, 2013

An example of one of the microfossils discovered in a sample of rock recovered from the Apex Chert, a rock formation in western Australia that is among the oldest and best-preserved rock deposits in the world.

Oldest fossils ever found show life on Earth began before 3.5...

Geology Page - December 18, 2017

Gigantic concretions formed in mudstone on New Zealand's Moeraki coast; about 50 million years old. The present research shows that even concretions of this size formed very rapidly, within several decades.

Cracking open the formation of fossil concretions

Geology Page - May 2, 2018

The sauropod trackway

World’s Largest Dinosaur Tracks Were Discovered in the Jura Mountains

Geology Page - November 14, 2017

World’s oldest fossils unearthed

Geology Page - March 1, 2017

The place where the footprint was found

Neanderthal footprints found in Gibraltar

Geology Page - February 16, 2019

Shonisaurus

Giant ichthyosaur is one of largest animals ever

Geology Page - April 9, 2018

Toe bones, the upper jaw and snout of the fossilized remains of a tyrannosaur skeleton

New tyrannosaur fossil is most complete found in Southwestern US

Geology Page - October 21, 2017

Trilobite

Geology Page - November 14, 2013

Discovery of ‘Jurassic butterflies’

Geology Page - February 4, 2016

Lyrarapax unguispinus

Earth’s first giant predators produced killer babies

Geology Page - June 2, 2018

First-ever discovered trilobite eggs paired with fossil of the segmented creature

Geology Page - January 24, 2017

Brachiosaur foot bones below a tail of a Camarasaurus.

Paleontologists discover largest dinosaur foot ever

Geology Page - July 28, 2018

Rare Dinosaur-Era Bird Wings Trapped in Amber

Geology Page - June 29, 2016

99 million years old Lizards Trapped in Amber Give Clues to...

Geology Page - March 6, 2016

Fossilized bubbles and cyanobacterial fabric from 1.6 billion-year-old phosphatized microbial mats from Vindhyan Supergroup, central India.

Tiny bubbles of oxygen got trapped 1.6 billion years ago

Geology Page - March 2, 2018

Ediacaran carbonate rocks in Three Gorges area, Hubei Province

What caused the mass extinction of Earth’s first animals?

Geology Page - June 30, 2018

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