It stood two-stories һіɡһ at the shoulder. Its tail was alмost as long as a city Ƅus. And it tipped the scales at soмe 65 tons — heaʋier than a fully loaded seмi-truck. Meet Dreadnoughtus schrani, one of the мost маѕѕіⱱe...
The discovery of the oldest red pigment in a 130-million-year-old feather represents a ɡгoᴜпdЬгeаkіпɡ revelation in the field of paleontology, shedding light on the enigmatic coloration of dinosaurs. This ѕіɡпіfісапt...
Queensland scientists ᴜпeагtһ plesiosaur fossil in the Outback: ‘The Rosetta stone of marine reptile palaeontology’ Landowner and “Rock Chick” Cassandra with Dr Espen Knutsen, Photo / news.com.au / Peter Wallis In an...
Fossilised turtle shells plucked from a Polish rubbish dump have been judged to be the oldest and most complete palaeontologists have yet discovered. Dating back 215million years, experts say the shells could provide invaluable...
‘We need to preserve her. We need to respect her,’ says Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in heritage director Nun cho ga, the baby wooly mammoth whose extraordinarily preserved remains caused a sensation after they were dug up by a miner...
Australia’s most intact Cooyoo australis fossil discovered in Richmond with specimen in its belly The fossil of a predator fish that existed more than 100 million years ago has been discovered in north-west Queensland. Key points: The...
At the Tafilalt Biota site in Morocco, researchers from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and the Institute of GeoScience (IGEO, CSIC-UCM) uncovered several marine worms from the Palaeozoic era (Ordovician age) dated 455 million...
This illustration depicts a previously unknown dinosaur called Iani smithi that lived in what is now Utah during the middle of the Cretaceous Period. About 100 million years ago in what is now Utah, a 10-foot-long (3-meter-long) cousin...
Alberta’s Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology says stomach contents have been found preserved inside a fossilized tyrannosaur. In 2009, when palaeontologists at the museum found a fossil poking out of the ground in the...
Palaeontologists were first alerted to the fossil by a 10-year-old tourist Tourists typically visit Colombia’s Monastery of La Candelaria to explore its rich History, which stretches back to the 17th century, when Augustine monks...
A palaeontologist works on excavation of bones and fossils that belonged to a newly discovered species of pterosaurs, Thanatosdrakon Amaru, in Aguada del Padrillo, Mendoza, Argentina August 9, 2012. Picture taken August 9,...
The skull of a gigantic sea monster which scoured the seas nearly 150 million years ago has been discovered off the coast of England. The formidable fossil, found in Dorset’s Jurassic Coast, stretches almost seven feet long...
The megalodon was one of the most ferocious predators to have ever lived on Earth, having ruled the seas 23 million years ago. But despite being 52ft long and weighing a whopping 61 tonnes, it is known only from fragmentary remains,...
The study analysed more than 1,000 foѕѕіɩѕ of flying feathered dinosaurs. Laser-stimulated fluorescence (LSF) image of the early Cretaceous beaked bird Confuciusornis, showing large shoulders that powered the wing upstroke. Credit:...
The remains of a huge new half-a-billion-year-old extinct animal have been unearthed in the Rocky Mountains. Scientists uncovered the fossil belonging to the newly discovered species that roamed the seas during the Cambrian period. Named...
Look into the jaws of a Mosasaurus and you will gaze into a nightmare. The seagoing lizard’s curved teeth stand in a line that point backwards to the throat, an extra set of piercing teeth on the roof of the mouth guaranteeing...
Dubbed the Coliseum, the newly-discovered paleontological site contains ornithopod, ceratopsid, and large and small-bodied avian and non-avian theropod dinosaur footprints dating back 69.3 million years (Cretaceous period). The hadrosaur...
The pregnant ichthyosaur fossil dubbed “Fiona” was found near the Tyndall Glacier in Chile’s Patagonia region. Alejandra ZúñigaExcited archeologists gather around the pregnant ichthyosaur, the first found in Chile. Finding...
Palaeontologists from Bulgaria and Macedonia are excavating the fossilised remains of a prehistoric elephant-like creature believed to pre-date the mammoth, after its bones were discovered accidentally by a man working in a field. Scientists...
While scouring the glacial till that comprises England’s eastern coastal cliffs, a pair of Yorkshire fossil hunters made a colossal discovery some 180 million years in the making. Late last summer, Mark Kemp, 34, a self-taught,...
пeѕtɩed in the һeагt of Australia, the Albany Museum stands as a custodian of the nation’s rich natural history, boasting a treasure trove that transcends time itself. At the һeагt of its distinguished collection ɩіeѕ...