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CHW 189 from the private collection of Herman Winkelhorst (Netherlands). The neck of the animal is excellently preserved, but the rest is not. One possible explanation may be that this is the result of uneven colonization of the carcass by microorganisms and algae, which created a protective layer especially around the neck

Fossil deposit is much richer than expected

Reconstruction of trilobite ancestral range in the southern hemisphere

Part of a quilted Ediacaran fossil is partly covered by ancient wind-drift from Namibia. Image courtesy of Greg Retallack.

Thin layers of sediment point to early arrival of life on...

Life reconstruction of ichthyosaur skull. Credit: Bob Nicholls (Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum)

Medical scanner helps to unlock the mysteries of a giant prehistoric...

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...

Mammalian diversification after extinction of the dinosaurs

Saltriovenator zanellai

The oldest large-sized predatory dinosaur comes from the Italian Alps

millipede

450 fossilized millipedes found in 100-million-year-old amber

Panoplosaurus mirus and Euoplocephalus tutus.

Huge armored dinosaurs battled overheating with nasal air-conditioning

Megalosaurus

Spectacular flying reptiles soared over Britain’s tropical Jurassic past

‘Treasure trove’ of dinosaur footprints found in southern England

Close-up of a looping millipede death-trail.

Early animals: Death near the shoreline, not life on land

Nanjinganthus fossil

Fossils suggest flowers originated 50 million years earlier than thought

Crittendeceratops

Horned dinosaur Crittendenceratops discovered in Arizona

Daohugou pterosaur

New discovery pushes origin of feathers back by 70 million years

Two of the fossils sampled for the study with the fossil melanosomes found in each fossil (scanning electron microscope images). Scaniacypselus to the left and Primotrogon to the right. Melanosome shape varies in the different samples, and is indicative of color. The sample furthest to the left was predicted to be iridescent. Credit: Photographs of Scaniacypselus and Primotrogon by Jakob Vinther and Fiann Smithwick.

Scientists discover how birds and dinosaurs evolved to dazzle with colourful...

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

A nematode (eukaryote) in a biofilm of microorganisms. This unidentified nematode (Poikilolaimus sp.) from Kopanang gold mine in South Africa, lives 1.4 km below the surface. Credit: Gaetan Borgonie, Extreme Life Isyensya, Belgium

Life in Deep Earth totals 15 to 23 billion tons of...

Volgatitan simbirskiensis anterior caudal vertebra

Scientists find new giant dinosaur

This illustration shows the percentage of marine animals that went extinct at the end of the Permian era by latitude, from the model (black line) and from the fossil record (blue dots). A greater percentage of marine animals survived in the tropics than at the poles. The color of the water shows the temperature change, with red being most severe warming and yellow less warming. At the top is the supercontinent Pangaea, with massive volcanic eruptions emitting carbon dioxide. The images below the line represent some of the 96 percent of marine species that died during the event. Includes fossil drawings by Ernst Haeckel/Wikimedia; Blue crab photo by Wendy Kaveney/Flickr; Atlantic cod photo by Hans-Petter Fjeld/Wikimedia; Chambered nautilus photo by ©2010 John White/CalPhotos. Credit: Justin Penn and Curtis Deutsch/University of Washington

Biggest mass extinction caused by global warming leaving ocean animals gasping...

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