Farmer Leads Scientists to Fossilized Egg From Prehistoric Giant Turtle - With a Revealing Embryo Inside
A very long-lived family, the turtles, filled in its family tree a little by the find of a fossilized embryo from the Cretaceous Period.
A very long-lived family, the turtles, filled in its family tree a little by the find of a fossilized embryo from the Cretaceous Period.
Among the great fossil beds of the world, China is up there, and no where else on earth can boast as many fossilized dinosaur footprints.
Archaeologist Marie Woods was out looking for shellfish. Instead she found the largest dinosaur fossil footprint seen on the Yorkshire coast.
There's a new member of the saber toothed cat genus, the largest ever found, that would have hunted rhinos.
In Israel, a 1000-year-old chicken egg has been found—and it's still preserved and unbroken, fascinating archaeologists.
The travels of a mammoth that lived 17,000 years ago have been revealed through the study of its tusks in Alaska.
The discovery of an ankylosaur relative with a leaf-shaped tail lined with 7 blades has scientists totally stunned.
Only 2 or 3 megalodon teeth are found per in Britain, with most being very eroded, making Sammy Shelton's find a once-in-a-lifetime one.
Astoundingly, a 500 million year-old prawn from the Cambrian Period was fossilized with his brain and nerves intact.
A British girl of six, who unearthed a massive ammonite during her first archaeological dig, has donated it to a museum to be enjoyed by the public. The 16 inch-long fossilized sea creature with a spiral-patterned spiked shell was a mollusk that lived in the oceans during the Jurassic period
A Nova Scotia man out for a casual beach stroll has stumbled upon what's being described as one of the most significant fossil discoveries in the province's history.
A newly-discovered dinosaur species has been named after the little girl, Daisy Morris, who stumbled across its remains in 2008 when she was just five years old. Paleontologists announced this week the new species of flying dinosaur would be named Vectidraco Daisymorrisa.
This youngster just discovered the skull of a prehistoric dinosaur in the depths of the New Mexican desert.
A fossilized penguin was found by kids in 2006 in New Zealand, which has now gone on to be a new species, uniting the giant penguin genus.
Walter is a remarkably complete specimen, and researchers believe that this fossil represents a new species
These tall featureless trunks, which have been found as fossils all over the world, are now strongly believed to be mushrooms.
researchers believe these 'fossilized lightning' strikes like this one might have produced chemicals that kick-started life on Earth.
The eggs yielded a trove of insights about sauropod reproductive strategies, and turned up 6 new species of dinosaur in the same dig.
It's not a frog, nor a salamander, but the early-Triassic version of what today are called Caecilians: a family of legless amphibians.
This 1.1 inch flower incased in amber was found 150 years ago, but a re-examination found pollen samples which proved its modern lineage.
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