Two recent papers, however, have shed light on what fungi were up to before 400 million years ago, the age of the oldest, non-controversial fungal fossils. In May, a team of researchers published ...

Tiny fossils reveal how water flow shaped the early marine ecosystem TOI Science Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Jun 19, 2025, 20:00 IST Share ...

The fossils are unusual. They’re 25 percent smaller than adult T-Rex fossils in the north. And they’re older — dating to about 69 million years, as opposed to 66 or 67 millions years. The tyrannosaur ...

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Why most fossils are incomplete. In 1990, fossil collectors in South Dakota stumbled across a dinosaur that turned out to be a really big deal. Not just because it was a T. rex – basically the ...

They then rapidly spread to many regions around the world including what is now the UK. But despite being their closest relatives, the first known fossils of pterosaurs don’t appear until around 20 ...

These pellets likely belonged to wood-eating oribatid mites - minuscule arachnids with fossils dating back almost 400 million years. Many of their tunnels ring those left by the termites, telling us ...

News Nostalgia Nostalgia Lost keys and cans of Red Rooster gather dust in now-derelict nightclub The ECHO was given rare access to the crumbling venue, where fossils of its heyday remain untouched ...

In my team's study, the red blood cell-like structures we found in Telmatosaurus fossils represent gateways to understanding the dinosaur's physiology. Proteins preserved in these tissues could reveal ...

But hard evidence remained elusive. Until now, the oldest known lepidopteran fossils dated back only to 201 million years ago, leaving a frustrating 40-million-year gap in the record.

David Nasca. Rhea Rollmann. How queer can Newfoundland’s 565-million-year-old fossils be? That’s what David Nasca has come a long way to find out. He made the long drive from Chicago to St. John’s at ...

But several fossils from the cave showed collagen preservation in bones dating to some 70,000 years ago. The team looked for signs of contamination. But all the collagens that the researchers turned ...