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.
The 9,000-year-old grave of a skilled female hunter was discovered in the Andes of Peru, showing female hunters were common in ancient times.
Everyone is familiar with the giant stone circle, but the world into which it was built is less well-known, the exhibit tells the full story.
New digital analysis of rock surfaces in a low cave reveals huge carvings and drawings from nearly 2,000 years ago in Alabama.
It may be cave art, but it takes high-tech expertise to bring the paintings of France's Lascaux caves to life again. Artists are rushing to complete a new reproduction of the historic site before it's too late. (Video from AFP here)
The British Museum unveiled the most important piece of prehistoric art found in Britain in the last 100 years-a 5000 year-old chalk drum.
Our early ancestors probably created intricate artwork by firelight, an examination of 50 engraved stones unearthed in France has revealed. The stones were incised with artistic designs around 15,000 years ago and have patterns of heat damage which suggests they were carved close to the flickering light of a fire, the new study has found. […]
Lady Sapien was a hunter and a mother, an artist and a craftsman, and a new book/documentary seeks who explore her ancient life.
4-year-old Lily Wilder was on a walk on a Welsh beach with her family when she recognized a dinosaur fossil that's 215 million years old.
University of Minnesota researchers have found that Baltic amber compounds could fight drug-resistant bacteria.
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.
NASA is launching the Lucy Mission which will travel to the Trojan Asteroids hoping to uncover the earliest histories of our solar system.
Researchers have discovered ancient hand and footprints in Tibet that are the oldest art in history-and they were made by children.
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 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.
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