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Mansourasaurus, New Egyptian dinosaur

Mansourasaurus- A story from the land of Pharaoh and Dinosaurs

Silhouettes show Mesohippus primigenium, an early ancestor of the modern horse that lived 40 million years ago and was previously believed to have three toes, and the modern horse

Researchers pose revolutionary theory on horse evolution

Archaeopteryx

The eleventh Archaeopteryx “Geologically oldest fossil”

This is the left hemi-maxilla with teeth.

Scientists discover oldest known modern human fossil outside of Africa

Hummelstown Fossils. A) Typical specimen reconstruction showing body mass (white) poking out of the 'spindle'-shaped cone (patterned). Note the presence of 'spikes' on the sides of the exposed body. B) Typical fossil specimen with body mass (with at least one spike) and 'spindle'-shaped cone. C) Surface of rock slab showing numerous Hummelstown fossils.

Rare 450 million year-old ‘cone-shaped’ fossil offers enigmatic glimpse into ancient...

The fossil bone tissue reveals new information about how the Australian “hypsilophodontid” dinosaurs lived

Shedding light on Australia’s polar dinosaurs

Foraminifera, small single-celled marine organisms

New Eocene fossil data suggest climate models may underestimate future polar...

Kootenayscolex barbarensis

New 508-million-year-old bristle worm species from British Columbia’s Burgess Shale wiggles...

Holotype fossil of Caihong juji, including line drawing of fossil skeleton.

‘Rainbow’ dinosaur had iridescent feathers like a hummingbird

Dinosaur tracks.

Digitally preserving important Arkansas dinosaur tracks

Butterfly

Scientists have accidentally found the oldest ever butterfly or moth fossils

Caihong juji is a newly described, bird-like dinosaur with an iridescent, rainbow crest.

Tiny dinosaur may have dazzled mates with rainbow ruff and a...

Diluvicursor pickeringi holotype

A new species of turkey-sized dinosaur is discovered from Australia

An artist's impression of a New Zealand burrowing bat, Mystacina robusta, that went extinct last century.

Giant extinct burrowing bat discovered in New Zealand

These are burrows on the margins of a sandstone dyke.

New depth limit for deep-sea marine burrows

This is part of a neck vertebra of the dwarf sauropod Europasaurus with deep cavities (asterisk) that presumably housed air sacs.

Researchers show high-performance breathing in bones

Fossil specimen of Habelia optata from the Royal Ontario Museum.

A 508 million year old sea predator with a ‘jackknife’ head

Skull, Urkudelphis chawpipacha MO-1 (holotype) in right lateral view.

New ancient dolphin species Urkudelphis chawpipacha discovered in Ecuador

A hidden diversity of half-billion-year-old microscopic animal fossils

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...

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