LOS ANGELES-- Scientists are studying a huge cache of Ice Age fossil deposits recovered near Los Angeles' famous La Brea Tar Pits. Among the finds is a near-intact mammoth skeleton and bones of ...
A remarkable fossil find in Dorset, UK, has uncovered a new species of ancient marine predator related to modern crocodiles. Dating back approximately 185 million years to the Early Jurassic, this ...
A group of fossils of elasmosaurs – some of the most famous in North America – have just been formally identified as belonging to a “very odd” new genus of the sea monster, unlike any previously known ...
Introduction. Famous fossils, hidden histories -- The old man of La Chapelle: the patriarch of paleo -- Piltdown: a name without a fossil -- The Taung Child: the rise of a folk hero -- Peking Man: a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of researchers working in China’s Hunan province has unearthed more than 50,000 fossil specimens from one small quarry, ...
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Crystals hidden inside dinosaur eggs at a famous fossil site are giving scientists a chance to do something that’s long proven elusive: figure out how old the ancient nests really are. Finding these ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jane, the world-famous tyrannosaur fossil at the Burpee Museum of Natural History, may not be a Tyrannosaurus rex after all. A new ...
Tyrannosaurus rex holotype specimen at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh. — ScottRobertAnselmo — CC BY-SA 3.0 Tyrannosaurus rex holotype specimen at the Carnegie Museum of Natural ...