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Palaeontologists found the fossil in January 2020 while searching for feathered dinosaurs in Santa Cruz province in Argentina. “They did not achieve their goal,” says Mariana Chuliver at ...

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Every once in a great while paleontological fieldwork turns up a fossil so extraordinary that it revolutionizes our understanding of the origin and evolution of an entire branch of the tree of life.

A newly discovered frog fossil represents the oldest tadpole ever found, and it looks remarkably like the tadpoles you’re probably familiar with except for one thing—it was a giant.

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Muller found the fossil in 2015, near the town of Paraiso do Sul, in the southern part of Brazil. But it was only recently that he and his colleagues began to study it. Dating showed the creature ...

The fossil has been identified as a new silesaurid, an extinct group of reptiles. Paleontologists debate whether silesaurids were true dinosaurs or possibly a precursor to the creatures that once ...

The oldest known tadpole fossil, which belongs to this species, was found in the Patagonia region of Argentina. Gabriel Lío While in search of dinosaur fossils, a team of Argentine and Chinese ...

Gondwanax paraisensis fossil found in southern Brazil Fossil dates back to Triassic period, 237 million years ago Discovery could shed light on dinosaur evolutionary success SAO JOAO DO POLESINE ...

These fossil ankle bones look like they're built to do something similar." An illustration of the newly described Avisaurus darwini, whose unusual foot bones indicate that it was one of the ...

The Petoskey stone is Michigan's stone and the mastodon, named Michigan's state fossil in 2002, is close to becoming the National Fossil of the United States of America. The National Fossil Act ...