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What once appeared as a fossil of the primitive animal Dickinsonia turned out to be notihng more than a decaying beehive, shown falling off the rock on the right just a couple years later. (Gregory Retallack/Joe Meert)

Mistaken fossil rewrites history of Indian subcontinent for second time

The fossilized skull of Coccocephalus wildi, an early ray-finned fish that swam in an estuary 319 million years ago. The fish is facing to the right, with the jaws visible in the lower right portion of the fossil. The eye socket is the circular, bumpy feature above the jaws. This fish would have been 6 to 8 inches long, about the size of a bluegill. Photo credit: Jeremy Marble, University of Michigan News.

319-million-year-old fish preserves the earliest fossilized brain of a backboned animal

Microscopic photograph of a lower jaw from Funcusvermis gilmorei soon after it was recovered during microscopic sorting of sediment from the Thunderstorm Ridge fossil site in the Petrified Forest National Park Paleontology Lab. Photo by Ben Kligman for Virginia Tech.

New geosciences study shows Triassic fossils that reveal origins of living...

(A) Completely unhatched egg from the clutch P43. (B) Almost fully intact circular outline of egg possibly indicating it to be unhatched and no loose eggshells are found in the clutch P6. (C) Compressed egg from clutch DR10 showing hatching window (arrow showing gap) and few eggshells collected just around the hatching window (circled) which possibly represent the remnants of hatching window. (D) Egg from clutch P26 showing curved outline. (E) Deformed egg from clutch P30 showing egg surfaces slipping past each other. Credit: Dhiman et al., 2023, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Researchers uncover 92 fossil nests belonging to some of India’s largest...

Scanning electron microscope images of tiny, ancient planktonic foraminifera, recovered from Gubbio, Italy. Credit: Gabriella Kitch

Malformed seashells, ancient sediment provide clues about Earth’s past

A figure from the study showing teeth from a megaraptor dinosaur from various view points. The black tooth preserves most of the tooth crow. The tan tooth is missing the crown apex and base. Credit: Davis et al.

Fossils Reveal Dinosaurs of Prehistoric Patagonia

Fig. 1: Some adult individuals watch over the newly-hatched Europasaurus chicks which are leaving the nest to join their herd. Commissioned artwork by Davide Bonadonna.

What the inner ear of Europasaurus reveals about its life

Close up photograph of the mammal foot among the ribs of Microraptor. Photograph by Hans Larsson, who retains the copyright on these images. These may be used in any article in association with this story. / Gros plan photo du pied de mammifère parmi les côtes de Microraptor. Photographie de Hans Larsson, qui détient les droits d'auteur sur ces images. Ceux-ci peuvent être utilisés dans n'importe quel article en association avec cette histoire.

Rare discovery of dinosaur remains preserved with its last meal

Dinosaur ancestors are shown in this artist's conception of life in the Chañares formation approximately 235 million years. Credit: Victor O. Leshyk / www.paleovista.com

Climate change played key role in dinosaur success story

Pterodactylus antiquus, DMA-JP-2014/004, from the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Torleite Formation of Painten; overview photograph.

Oldest Pterodactylus fossil found in Germany

Fossils from the Fezouata Shale. From left to right, a non-mineralized arthropod (Marrellomorpha), a palaeoscolecid worm and a trilobites. Credit Emmanuel Martin. 

Fossil site reveals giant arthropods dominated the seas 470 million years...

Artist's impression of an individual 525-million-year-old Cardiodictyon catenulum on the shallow coastal sea floor, emerging from the shelter of a small stromatolite, rock-like structures built by microorganisms that were common at the time. Credit: Nicholas Strausfeld

525-million-year-old fossil defies textbook explanation for brain evolution

Artistic reconstruction of the Ordovician fossils Mieridduryn bonniae. Original artwork by Franz Anthony

Welsh ‘weird wonder’ fossils add piece to puzzle of arthropod evolution

Giant sea scorpions once roamed the ancient Devonian sea 400 million years ago. Now, researchers are learning more about that world. Credit: Aunt Spray | Shutterstock.com

Tiniest ever ancient seawater pockets revealed

A dazzling play of colors highlights Southern California’s long lost clam. Photo Credit: Jeff Goddard

Rare ‘fossil’ clam discovered alive

Impressions of the Ediacaran fossils Dickinsonia (at center) with the smaller anchor shaped Parvancorina (left) in sandstone of the Ediacara Member from the Nilpena Ediacara National Park in South Australia. Photo courtesy of Scott Evans.

Geobiologists shine new light on Earth’s first known mass extinction event...

SMU paleontologists helped find a new species of pterosaurs in Angola, where fossils of other large marine animals have been found. E. otyikokolo can be seen flying above the ocean in the ancient picture. Artwork by Karen Carr Studio.

New pterosaur species found in sub-Saharan Africa

Artist's reconstruction of Gangtoucunia aspera as it would have appeared in life on the Cambrian seafloor, circa 514 million years ago. The individual in the foreground has part of the skeleton removed to show the soft polyp inside the skeleton. Reconstruction by Xiaodong Wang.

500 million year-old fossils reveal answer to evolutionary riddle

Scallop Pleuronectites from the Triassic period with fluorescent colour pattern; left under normal light, right under UV light. Photo: Klaus Wolkenstein

Glowing fossils: Fluorescence reveals color patterns of earliest scallops

Paleohistological transverse sections of select elements of (A) large- and (B) medium-bodied individuals of the Eutaw ornithomimosaurs, and (C) relative body-size of the Eutaw ornithomimosaurs within known ornithomimosaur taxa through a geological time. Credit: Tsogtbaatar et al., CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Ostrich-like dinosaurs from Mississippi are among the world’s largest at over...

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