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Scientists first thought Chilesaurus lived 45 million years ago was fake

Apr 30, 2015

Chile - A Chilean boy has discovered a fossil that is said to be from a new dinosaur species. Scientists have indicated that this is one of the "most bizarre" species ever that was uncovered by Seven-year-old D...

2.5 million years old Fossil of lost ancient ‘Terror Bird’ Llallawavis Scagliai found in Argentina

Cody Gash

Apr 12, 2015

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Fossils of the new species of Llallawavis Scagliai, also known as 'Terror Bird' have been discovered in Argentina. It is believed that the discovery was made in amidst the cliffs of over the La Estafeta beach i...

Researchers find a 508 million year-old fossil of Lobster-Predator in Marble Canyon

Cody Gash

Mar 28, 2015

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Butterflies, lobsters, and spiders are surviving relatives of a species called Yawunik Kootenayi – a marine organism with two-paired-eyes and grasping appendages that existed 508 million years back, even 250 mi...

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Fossilized fish eye rods and cones suggests color vision is at least 300 million years old

Amanda

Dec 24, 2014

Innovation

An amazingly well preserved 10 centimeter long fossilized fish found in the Hamilton Quarry (Kansas) suggests that the fish have been seeing the world in color since at least 300 million years. Since the fossil...

Phytosaurus tooth found embedded inside 210 million years old predator Fossil

Amanda

Sep 29, 2014

Innovation

Before dinosaurs walked on Earth, that is, more than 210 million years ago and when the supercontinent Pangea had just started breaking apart and giving birth to the continents as we know them today, our planet...

Semi-aquatic dinosaur fossil found across two continents

Semi-aquatic dinosaur capable of swimming, fossils found across two continents

Charles Omedo

Sep 12, 2014

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In a bizarre twist of events, scientists in Morocco, Germany and Italy are trying to reconstruct a new species of dinosaur that could have swam in waters. This semi-aquatic dinosaur is known as spinosaurus, and...

Strange worm fossil finally linked to modern animals

Platonium

Aug 19, 2014

Innovation

One of the strangest fossils ever found has finally found its place in evolutionary history. In the 1970s, researchers found the fossil of the worm Hallucigenia, although the perplexed researchers weren't re...

Rare whale fossil excavated with help of sheriff’s department

Platonium

Aug 1, 2014

Innovation

A rare whale fossil has been pulled up from a Southern California backyard with the help of a sheriff's search-and-rescue team. According to Howell Thomas, who is a paleontologist from the Natural History Mu...

U.S. officials confirm returning of stolen dinosaur fossils to Mongolia

Platonium

Jul 13, 2014

Innovation

The fossils of 18 dinosaurs have been shipped back to Mongolia, the U.S. authorities have said. The fossils were looted from sites in the Gobi desert and were recently discovered in the U.S. following a crimina...

World’s tiniest hedgehog fossil discovered

Platonium

Jul 10, 2014

Innovation

Researchers have discovered a fossil of the world's tiniest hedgehog. Only about the size of a modern day shrew, the mammal lived around 52 millions years ago in a rainforest in what is now called British Colum...

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