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Numerous specimens of Kateretidae in a piece of amber from the Institute of Geology and Palaeontology in Nanjing (China). Included are also pollen grains from primitive water lilies. Credit: Georg Oleschinski/Uni Bonn

Beetles changed their diet during the Cretaceous period

Geology Page - March 21, 2020

UNLV geologist Stephen Rowland discovered that a set of 28 footprints left behind by a reptile-like creature 310 million years ago are the oldest ever to be found in Grand Canyon National Park.

Reptile tracks oldest ever found in Grand Canyon

Scientists discover major Jurassic fossil site in Argentina

Tethymyxine tapirostrum, is a 100-million-year-old, 12-inch long fish embedded in a slab of Cretaceous period limestone from Lebanon, believed to be the first detailed fossil of a hagfish.

Fossilized slime of 100-million-year-old hagfish shakes up vertebrate family tree

The head and body of the Messel python are almost completely preserved. Credit: Hessian State Museum Darmstadt

World’s earliest python identified from 47 million-year-old fossil remains

Study shows ancient British shores teemed with life

Geology Page - August 15, 2015

When snakes had legs: New look at rare fossil reveals clues...

Geology Page - June 21, 2016

a fossilized dinosaur footprints

Dinosaur tracks make fresh impression at Valley Forge park

Geology Page - March 6, 2019

A new study focussing on the birds of the Ice Age

Geology Page - May 21, 2015

Megalosaurus

Spectacular flying reptiles soared over Britain’s tropical Jurassic past

Geology Page - December 21, 2018

Researcher finds dinosaur teeth more intricate than reptiles mammals

Geology Page - June 6, 2015

New research is shedding light on how and where ancient flying reptiles called pterosaurs lived. Credit: Julius Csotonyi

95-million-year-old fossil reveals new group of pterosaurs

Geology Page - December 2, 2019

Climate-change clues from turtles of tropical Wyoming

Geology Page - February 25, 2015

Teeth of Simiolus minutus, which currently reside in the National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi, were found in the Tugen Hills of Kenya.

Tiniest ever fossil ape discovered in Kenya

Geology Page - November 8, 2018

Rewriting the history of the Boaz mastodon

Geology Page - May 27, 2015

Jurassic crocodile. Artist's impression (credit: Julia Beier)

Jurassic crocodile identified 250 years after fossil find

Geology Page - September 16, 2019

Cifelliodon wahkarmoosuch

Utah fossil reveals global exodus of mammals’ near relatives to major...

Geology Page - May 27, 2018

Earliest known fossil of the genus Homo dates to 2.8 to...

Geology Page - March 5, 2015

Preserved embryos illustrate seed dormancy in early angiosperms

Geology Page - December 24, 2015

The Mammoth’s Lament: How Cosmic Impact Sparked Devastating Climate Change

Geology Page - May 21, 2013

Historic fossils find new life telling the story of ancient proteins

Geology Page - June 16, 2016

Ebola’s evolutionary roots more ancient than previously thought

Geology Page - October 25, 2014

The origin and diversification of snakes

Geology Page - May 20, 2015

Map illustrating the location of Kapi (black star) relative to modern (dark green) and historical (light green) populations of lesser apes and the approximate distribution of early fossil apes in East Africa (blue triangles). Green triangles mark the location of previously discovered fossil gibbons. The new fossil is millions of years older than any previously known fossil gibbon and highlights their migration from Africa to Asia. Credit: Luci Betti-Nash.

New fossil ape discovered in India

Geology Page - September 9, 2020

Fossils enrich our understanding of evolution

Geology Page - December 16, 2015

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