This fossil find is significant, as the preservation of soft-bodied marine animals from the Ediacaran period – which spanned 635 to 538 million years ago – is incredibly rare, and of the 100 ...

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.

The fossil showed unique stalked eyes and centipede-like characteristics. The face of a car-size, millipede-like creature — the largest arthropod ever to live — has finally been revealed ...

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Using computer modelling, experts produced estimates that T. Rex might have been 70% heavier than what the fossil evidence ... Aug. 26, 2024 — An international team of paleontologists has found ...

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 Harvard Museum of Natural History welcomed visitors on Sunday for its third annual National Fossil Day event since the Covid-19 pandemic, allowing children and adults to learn about ...

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 ...

Paleontologist Rodrigo Temp Muller analyzes a Gondwanax paraisensis fossil in the Cappa laboratory. The fossil was originally found in 2014 and then donated to a university in 2021, kicking off ...

A Tasmanian tiger, declared extinct in 1936, is displayed at the Australian Museum in Sydney (AFP via Getty) Ancient fossil specimens generally only retain short DNA sequences and little to no RNA ...

SAO JOAO DO POLESINE, Brazil - Scientists in Brazil announced the discovery of one of the world’s oldest fossils believed to belong to an ancient reptile dating back some 237 million years that ...