Tag: Fossils

An international team of scientists have revealed a new species of ichthyosaur (a dolphin-like marine reptile from the age of dinosaurs) from Iraq, which...

Just when dinosaur researchers thought they had a thorough knowledge of ankylosaurs, a family of squat, armour plated, plant eaters, along comes University of...

Scientists have named a new species of bone-headed dinosaur (pachycephalosaur) from Alberta, Canada. Acrotholus audeti (Ack-RHO-tho-LUS) was identified from both recently discovered and historically...

First fossil evidence shows small crocs fed on baby dinosaursA South Dakota School of Mines & Technology assistant professor and his team have discovered...

It has all the hallmarks of a Cretaceous melodrama. A dinosaur sits on her nest of a dozen eggs on a sandy river...

A small, bird-like North American dinosaur incubated its eggs in a similar way to brooding birds -- bolstering the evolutionary link between birds and...

For over 20 years, archeologists have been recovering an unusually high number of large carnivore fossils from a cave near Madrid, Spain. According to...

Fossil remains found by a George Washington University biologist in northwestern China have been identified as a new species of small theropod, or meat-eating,...

Scientists studying how early land vertebrates evolved from fishes long thought that the animals developed legs for moving around on land well before their...

What are Stromatolites? Stromatolites or stromatoliths are layered accretionary structures formed in shallow water by the trapping, binding and cementation of sedimentary grains by biofilms...

Research Reveals New Information On the Evolution of Dinosaur SensesDec. 19, 2012 — An international team of scientists, including PhD student Stephan Lautenschlager and...

Mar. 20, 2013 — The first red alga genome has just been sequenced by an international team coordinated by CNRS and UPMC at the...

Mar. 18, 2013 — Marine biologists have, for the first time, found a whale skeleton on the ocean floor near Antarctica, giving new insights...

Beak shape variation in Darwin's finches is a classic example of evolutionary adaptation, with beaks that vary widely in proportions and shape, reflecting a...

Researchers have shown that part of Australia's rich plant diversity was wiped out by the ice ages, proving that extinction, instead of evolution, influences...

Ancient multicellular fossils long thought to be ancestors of early marine life are remnants of land-dwelling lichen or other microbial colonies, says University of Oregon...

Research led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History shows that ammonites-an extinct type of shelled mollusk that's closely related to modern-day...

The oceans teemed with life 600 million years ago, but the simple, soft-bodied creatures would have been hardly recognizable as the ancestors of nearly...

Evidence of the single-celled ancestors of animals, dating from the interval in Earth's history just before multicellular animals appeared, has been discovered in 570...

It's well known that Earth's most severe mass extinction occurred about 250 million years ago. What's not well known is the specific time when...