South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ago. Over the past 15 years, our research group at the African Centre for ...

New analysis shows several families of dinosaurs were likely thriving in North America in the latter days of the dinosaur era. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes Diversity is central to one of the ...

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...

Pinpointing when exactly animals first appeared on Earth is a bit like finding a needle in a very old, planet-sized haystack — but a new study has narrowed the search a bit. Estimates for the arrival ...

Ireland is an unlikely candidate for dinosaur fossils but two were found on Islandmagee beach, two decades apart.

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the "Burtele ...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Fossils Are Where You Find Them -- 1. Fantastic Fossils -- 2. How Are Fossils Formed? -- 3. What Kinds of Rocks Yield Fossils? -- 4.

Learn how anacondas are defying expectations of reptile experts by keeping their ancient body size despite drastic ...

What makes this discovery particularly intriguing is that the Darwin lamniform fossils predate all previously known Cardabiodontids by 15 million years. This suggests that the evolutionary ...

In 1940, a few years after the new highway was surveyed at the intersection of Brush Creek and Colorado Highway 82, the local paper reported, “County Road Men Find Fossils at Cozy Point. Henry Sievers ...

And if you don't believe us, just ask third-graders, their teachers and the chaperones who recently visited the Rockford Fossil and Prairie Park. Trust us, we learned a lot, including: - Over the last ...

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