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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

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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

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

Geology Page - February 3, 2016

Fossil footprints challenge established theories of human evolution

Geology Page - September 4, 2017

Artist’s depiction of an ornithopod dinosaur tending its nest.

Baby dinosaurs found in Australia

Geology Page - December 22, 2019

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

In-depth fossil analysis could help us understand the true functions of colour. Credit: Aline Dassel/Pixabay, licensed under Pixabay licence

Fossil colour studies are changing our idea of how dinosaurs looked

Geology Page - August 31, 2019

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

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

Geology Page - May 2, 2019

First dinosaur bones found in Denali National Park

Geology Page - October 18, 2016

Stromatolites

Geology Page - April 25, 2013

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

Discovery of ‘Jurassic butterflies’

Geology Page - February 4, 2016

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

Trilobite

Geology Page - November 14, 2013

The place where the footprint was found

Neanderthal footprints found in Gibraltar

Geology Page - February 16, 2019

dinosaur skeleton

Perfectly preserved dinosaur skin found in Korea

Geology Page - April 11, 2019

Shonisaurus

Giant ichthyosaur is one of largest animals ever

Geology Page - April 9, 2018

Rare Dinosaur-Era Bird Wings Trapped in Amber

Geology Page - June 29, 2016

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

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

Geology Page - March 6, 2016

Brachiosaur foot bones below a tail of a Camarasaurus.

Paleontologists discover largest dinosaur foot ever

Geology Page - July 28, 2018

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Geologists study Yilgarn’s western crust

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Tiny, ancient fossil shows evidence of the breath of life

November 8, 2018

The first evidence of human life in the Olorgesailie Basin comes from about 1.2 million years ago. For hundreds of the thousands of years, people living there made and used large stone-cutting tools called handaxes (left).

Scientists discover evidence of early human innovation, pushing back evolutionary timeline

March 15, 2018

pillow basalts from undersea volcanic eruptions,

Which came first: Complex life or high atmospheric oxygen?

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