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A photo of the stone men (Chimulchek Culture) in the steppe area of Altai Mountains. These figures are characteristic of the peoples who lived in the area around the time of occupation at Tongtian. These specific examples are located at the Chimulchek site (ca. 4000 years old) and not far from Tongtian Cave. Ceramic sherds from the cave suggest that the occupants in the cave shared similar cultural traits to other people in the region. Credit: Jianjun Yu

5,200-year-old grains in the eastern Altai Mountains redate trans-Eurasian crop exchange

Geology Page - February 15, 2020

Four complete Tragychrysa ovoruptora newborns preserved together with egg shell remains and one visible egg burster (right inset). Credit: Modified from the open access article published in Palaeontology: 'The hatching mechanism of 130-million-year-old insects: an association of neonates, egg shells, and egg bursters in Lebanese amber'

Newborn insects trapped in amber show first evidence of how to crack an egg

Fossil from 20-foot shark found near Fort Worth

Manakacha Trackway. Credit: Stephen Rowland

Cliff collapse reveals 313-million-year-old fossil footprints in Grand Canyon National Park

Fossil skeleton confirms earliest primates were tree dwellers

This is a drawing of the extinct Australian giant short-faced kangaroo Simosthenurus occidentalis, part of the Sthenurinae sub-family.

Tiny Australian wallaby the last living link to extinct giant kangaroos

Geology Page - December 11, 2018

Articulated skeleton of Ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur at the excavation site south of Lodai village

First Jurassic ichthyosaur fossil found in India

Geology Page - October 26, 2017

A Photoshop-created image of how Kataigidodon venetus may have looked, illustrated by Ben Kligman, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geosciences and Hannah R. Kligman. Credit: Virginia Tech

New species of ancient cynodont, 220 million years old, discovered

Geology Page - November 4, 2020

Woolly rhino neck ribs provide clues about their decline and eventual...

Geology Page - August 30, 2017

Burgess Shale fossil site gives up oldest evidence of brood care

Geology Page - December 19, 2015

Meet Pentecopterus, a new predator from the prehistoric seas

Geology Page - September 1, 2015

Undead T. rex.

The curse of zombie fossils

Geology Page - March 24, 2018

leptocleididae

A small plesiosaur lived in Spain 125 million years ago

Geology Page - March 3, 2019

Date and Rate of Earth’s Most Extreme Extinction Pinpointed

Geology Page - November 20, 2011

Variation in the recovery of tetrapods after the Permian extinction opened...

Geology Page - August 25, 2017

Significant changes in rhino bone health over 50 million years

Geology Page - February 4, 2016

Isle of Skye fossil makes three species one

Geology Page - November 13, 2015

Pigment from fossils reveals color of extinct mammals for the first...

Geology Page - September 29, 2015

A reconstruction of the Eocene of Turkey, where the small marsupial was found. Besides the marsupials, the fauna includes embrithopods (the rhino-like animals of the background, more related to elephants and sea cows), pleuraspidotheriids (primitive ungulates with a deer/dog look), a group of primates called omomyids, bats, tortoises and crocodiles. Credit: Oscar Sanisidro | University of Kansas

Deep-time evolution of animal life on islands

Geology Page - November 17, 2018

Clues to paleoclimate from tiny fossils

Geology Page - November 25, 2013

Paleontologist Dean Lomax with the fossilized ichthyosaur. (Matthew Power Photography/Anglian Water)

The World’s Largest Sea Dragon Unearthed in The UK

Geology Page - January 11, 2022

Fossilized teeth from the ancient lizard Priosphenodon show that it had durable tooth enamel—a feature much more common in mammals, according to U of A paleontologists. Credit: Aaron LeBlanc

Ancient reptile had mammal-like tooth enamel, study shows

Geology Page - May 10, 2020

Ice age extinction shaped Australian plant diversity

Geology Page - February 18, 2013

Scientists identified a new ichnospecies from the shell of an extinct marine turtle fossil, the first known species coexisting on living marine vertebrates

Life in a nutshell: New species found in the carapace of...

Geology Page - August 26, 2020

Jurassic Jaws: How Ancient Crocodiles Flourished During the Age of the...

Geology Page - September 11, 2013

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Life restoration of Kongonaphon kely, a newly described reptile near the ancestry of dinosaurs and pterosaurs, shown to scale with human hands. The fossils of Kongonaphon were found in Triassic (~237 million years ago) rocks in southwestern Madagascar and demonstrate the existence of remarkably small animals along the dinosaurian stem. Art by Frank Ippolito / © American Museum of Natural History

A tiny ancient relative of dinosaurs and pterosaurs discovered

July 16, 2020

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Largest undersea landslide revealed on the Great Barrier Reef

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October 24, 2014

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