Medicine & TechnologyScientists found 430-million-year old sea scorpion fossil from the Patrick Burn Formation near Lesmahagow, Scotland. The ancestor of modern scorpions and horseshoe crabs were the ultimate predator of the ocean when sharks and barracudas were not evolved.
Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and Michigan State University scientists analyzed fossil records and bones of Hawaiian Petrel to determine how human interference affecting their food chain. industrial fishing and other human activities are damaging their resources During the past 100 years.
Fossil Q smartwatch owners are lucky Android Wear users as they will get the Google's latest wearable OS on March 15. The update will arrive on Fossil Q Founder (either generation), Q Marshal or Q Wander smartwatches.
The 423 million years old Sparalepsis fish fossil revealed the secrets of fish evolution. Researchers from Flinders University, Australia and the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, China found this fossil from Southern China
Researchers found Neanderthal fossils from Belgium and the El Sidrón site in Asturias, northern Spain. By Analyzing DNA samples researchers found they used various plants to heal their tooth problems.
The earliest evidence for life on Earth is graphite found to be a biogenic substance in 3.7 billion-year-old metasedimentary rocks discovered in western Greenland and microbial mat fossils found in 3.48 billion-year-old sandstone discovered in Western Australia.
Scientists found 520 million years old fossil of Trilobite from the upstate of New York. the specimen was fossilized at pyrite. Lead researcher Thomas A. Hegna and his team found eggs from the back of their head.
scientists found 400 million years old fossil of an extinct worm from Royal Ontario Museum. The specimen had been kept for more than a decade. The extinct gigantic species had more than one-centimeter long jaw that made the immense predator during the period.
A baby "sea monster" was unbelievably found in the belly of its fossil mother. The discovery contradicts the origin of the species for it is known as a reptile.
A new study published in the journal Palaeontology has revealed some interesting new details about the process of reproduction in Mosasaurs, the large marine lizards that once populated the waters about 65 million years ago.
News this week revealed a frightening new addition to the fossil record—a “Terror Bird” species known more scientifically as Llallawavis scagliai (aka Scaglia’s Magnificent Bird). But in spite of its massive size and terrifying stance, this top-tier predatory may not have been the most well-adapted hunter that it could be… That is, unless it was hunting in packs.
Think that you don’t have what it takes to start a career in paleontology, even though your fascination with dinosaurs never ends? Well never fear, news this week reveals that you’re never too old, or too young, to start on the hunt for dinosaurs. And 4-year-old Wylie Brys, of Mansfield, Texas, is proving this sentiment true.