Scientists uncovered the origin story of common ancestors of living apes by finding a 13-million-year-old primate skull from the west of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Scientists named this specimen as “Alesi”, it has a tiny nose and mouth related to its head size.
The CT scanning technology had been a great help for the world's first named dinosaur, the Megalosaurus. The previously unseen teeth of the Megalosaurus had been revealed.
Five fossils of different individuals were found on 1961 by barite miners in Morocco. Now, on a study of a team, the fossils were suspected to be the earliest kind of Homo sapiens than what was already known in the history of evolution.
Secrets of early life forms on earth are now being studied by the researchers to know more details about the earth’s first animals. The study is done by researchers at the University of California.
Recently a group of paleobotanist found the fossilized flower in Argentina which belongs to Buckthorn family. The fossil is located in the shales of the Salamanca Formation.
Mammal species of the Jurassic period has been found from the excavation site of Skye. Scientists found the evidence of milk teeth from 165 million years old Wareolestes rex fossil.
The fossils of the last African Dinosaur which went extinct 66 million years ago has been found by a team of researchers in Morocco. The dinosaurs are linked to a new species found - Chenanisaurus barbaricus.
The scientists discovered that the fossil groundwater which is being pumped from deep wells, are thought to be the safest and ancient aquifers but potentially they also contain pollutants and modern contaminants.
The footprints of a mysterious reptile that lived about 250 million years ago have been identified in fossils from the Pyrenees mountains. Scientists say the new species is a member of the group that gave rise to crocodiles and dinosaurs.