Apr 19 2024
The surprising discovery of “ghost” fossils belonging to tiny, ancient organisms could provide insights into how life reacts to climate change in Earth’s oceans. Looking through a powerful microscope, scientists were stunned to see the impressions left by single-celled plankton, […]
Fossils found in Chile are from a strange-looking dog-sized dinosaur species that had a unique slashing tail weapon, scientists. Some dinosaurs had spiked tails they could use as stabbing weapons and others had tails with clubs. The new species, described […]
The first tracings of dinosaurs in Missouri were found in the 1940s on the Chronister family’s property when they were digging a well. Nearly 60 years later, another set of fossils from the same species were uncovered about 50 feet […]
Crystal Palace Park, in south London, still hosts the world’s first dinosaur sculptures. They were created in the 1850s based on what was, at the time, very recent scientific discoveries: fossils, unearthed in England just decades earlier. Scientists struggled to […]
Fossilized footprints have been discovered in New Mexico suggest that early humans were walking across North America around 23,000 years ago, as per researchers. In 2009, the first footprints were found in a dry lake bed in White Sands National […]
A group of young intrepid explorers could not have realised that a seemingly normal trip at a Summer Camp in 2006 could change the lives of paleontologists around the world after 15 years! According to reports, in 2006 a group […]
If you’re into dinosaurs, you too could own a 66-million-year-old giant Triceratops fossil if you have an estimated 1.2 million euros (AED5million). The fossil who has been named Big John’s skull is 2.62 meters (8 feet 7 inches) long and […]
Archaeological discoveries have continued to amaze us all over the years, this particular one is quite unique. Scientists recently found a four-legged ‘god of death’ whale in Egypt and have named it after the god of death, Phiomicetus Anubis. They […]
