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.
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100 Million-Year-Old Footprints of Giant Dinosaur Found at Restaurant in China
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.
Woman Collecting Shellfish Discovers Dinosaur Footprint of 'Jurassic Giant'
Archaeologist Marie Woods was out looking for shellfish. Instead she found the largest dinosaur fossil footprint seen on the Yorkshire coast.
Newly Discovered Species of Saber-Toothed Cat Was So Big It Hunted Rhinos in America
There's a new member of the saber toothed cat genus, the largest ever found, that would have hunted rhinos.
Ancient Chicken Laid An Egg That Lasted 1,000 Years Without Being Broken
In Israel, a 1000-year-old chicken egg has been found—and it's still preserved and unbroken, fascinating archaeologists.
Astonishing Peek Into Travels of Mammoth 17,000 Years Ago: A Diary Written in Their Tusks
The travels of a mammoth that lived 17,000 years ago have been revealed through the study of its tusks in Alaska.
Club-Tailed Dinosaur Found in Chile Had Weapon Unlike Anything Seen Before: 'Entirely Unprecedented'
The discovery of an ankylosaur relative with a leaf-shaped tail lined with 7 blades has scientists totally stunned.
Little Boy Finds Massive Ancient Shark Tooth Millions of Years Old
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.
World's Oldest Brain Has Been Found in Remains of a 3-Eyed Giant Prawn From Half-Billion Years Ago
Astoundingly, a 500 million year-old prawn from the Cambrian Period was fossilized with his brain and nerves intact.
Girl, 6, Finds Huge 160mil Year-old Fossil With Plastic Shovel
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
Nova Scotia Man Makes Significant Fossil Find While Walking Dog Along Beach
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.
Scientists Name New Dinosaur After 5-year-old Girl Who Found Fossil
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.
Boy Trips, Falls and Discovers Rare Million-Year-old Fossil
This youngster just discovered the skull of a prehistoric dinosaur in the depths of the New Mexican desert.
Fossil Found by Kids in New Zealand Turns Out to Be 27 Million-Year-old Giant Penguin
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.
Complete Dinosaur Fossil Found by a Dog Renews Rural Coal Town in Colorado
Walter is a remarkably complete specimen, and researchers believe that this fossil represents a new species
Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Our Planet Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms
These tall featureless trunks, which have been found as fossils all over the world, are now strongly believed to be mushrooms.
A Lightning Strike Produced a Brand-New Phosphorus Mineral Never Before Seen on Earth
researchers believe these 'fossilized lightning' strikes like this one might have produced chemicals that kick-started life on Earth.
Paleontologists in India Have Hit on an Epic Find: Hundreds of Bowling Ball-Sized Titanosaur Eggs
The eggs yielded a trove of insights about sauropod reproductive strategies, and turned up 6 new species of dinosaur in the same dig.
New Study of Triassic Fossils Reveal the Origins of Living Amphibians Through a Tiny "Funky Worm"
It's not a frog, nor a salamander, but the early-Triassic version of what today are called Caecilians: a family of legless amphibians.
World's Largest Prehistoric Flower Preserved in Amber is Stunning Reminder of Nature's Beauty -LOOK
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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