A rock sat in a school for years. Scientists say it’s a fossil jackpot.
A paleontologist discovered dinosaur footprints in the roughly 200 million year old boulder, which was donated to an ...
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444-million-year-old fossil named 'Sue' has a story to tell
A 444-million-year-old fossil named "Sue" preserves internal organs of Keurbos susanae, raising questions about arthropod ...
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A Fossil So Strange Scientists Think It’s From a Completely New Form of Life
Millions of years before the first trees grew their canopies and the earliest insects buzzed, a strange organism sprouted from the ground. It looked like a trunk, cylindrical and bare, stretching over ...
‘Unprecedented snapshot’ of Early Jurassic dinosaurs has been hiding in plain sight at a school, scientists say
A trace fossil of 66 dinosaur footprints has been uncovered in Australia, providing a rare snapshot of dinosaur behavior and ...
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Vulture fossil reveals that volcanic rock can preserve feathers
A 30,000-year-old vulture fossil was found in volcanic rock. Scientists discovered microscopic feather details preserved in ...
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30,000-year-old fossilized vulture feathers 'nothing like what we usually see' preserved in volcanic ash
"Fossil feathers are usually preserved in ancient mudrocks laid down in lakes or lagoons. The fossil vulture is preserved in ...
Radioisotopic ages of newly discovered fossil sites hold clues to evolution of mammals
Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich ...
Scientists are pleading for more help at southern Utah fossil site. Here’s what they’ve found so far.
Scientists racing the clock to finish excavating top southern Utah dinosaur fossil site before construction on a power ...
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Paleontologists Stumble Across 15-Million-Year-Old Fish Fossils That Are So Well Preserved, Their Last Meals Are Intact
Discovered in Australia, the fossils represent a new species that lived during the Miocene epoch and highlight how iron-rich ...
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‘Unprecedented snapshot’ of Early Jurassic dinosaurs has been hiding in plain sight at a school, scientists say
During the extraction of the overlying rock, which spans many miles and dates to the Early Jurassic period, fossil footprints such as these can be found. “There are definitely many more fossils ...