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Japanese researchers have found that the world's oceans during the Cretaceous period, 70 million to 100 million years ago, were dominated by squid, media reports said Saturday.
Discover the Ozarks’ ancient story on ONSC’s Rock and Roll Geology Bus Tour Sept. 20. Explore fossils, limestone, and landscapes with a local geologist.
An Arenaerpeton fossil, also known as Chinese Giant Salamander, was found in an Australian garden with almost complete skin and skeleton.
The bones of a 160-million-year-old dinosaur are helping scientists solve one of evolution’s biggest mysteries: how birds ...
The Department of Culture and Tourism in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, has announced a new archaeological discovery: a ...
New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest example of interbreeding between the two groups.
The researchers carefully compared the newly discovered teeth with known specimens of Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy’s species) and early Homo. They found that these teeth belonged to both early ...
A tiny fossil of a sea creature that lived more than half a billion years ago sheds new light on the evolution of arthropods, the most species-rich and successful group of animals to inhabit Earth, ...
A remarkably intact skeleton of a giant meat-eating crocodile relative has been unearthed in South America, providing ...
A shark fossil found in limestone quarries in northeastern Mexico shines light on the appearance of an ancient predator.
In addition to the ancient jawbone, scientists uncovered fossils from a sabre-toothed tiger, wolf, elephant and giraffe along ...
The newly unearthed fossil has teeth that are comparable to a T. rex, according to National Geographic Explorer Diego Pol.