Scientists discover new extinct ant species encased in amber
Scientists discover new extinct ant species encased in amber.
Paleontology
Siberian cave filled with mammoth, rhino and bear bones is an ancient hyena lair
The cave has been untouched for around 42,000 years. It also contained the bones and teeth of hyena pups, suggesting they raised their young there.
Cache in Chinese mountain reveals 20,000 prehistoric fossils
The fossil ecosystem reveals how life recovered after the most devastating mass extinction on Earth.
How the prehistoric butterflies existed before flowers?
To this date, our modern science generally accepted that the “proboscis – a long, tongue-like mouthpiece used by today’s moths and butterflies” to reach the nectar inside floral tubes, actually…
Unusual fossil shows rare evidence of a mammal attacking a dinosaur
Newly discovered fossils from the Lower Cretaceous Lujiatun of the Yixian Formation in China show a deadly battle between a Gobiconodont mammal and a Psittacosaurid dinosaur.
Fossilized fish discovered on the high-altitude Himalayas!
Scientists that are studying the peak of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on Earth, have found fossilized fish and other marine creatures that have been embedded in the rock. How did so many fossils of marine creatures end up in the high-altitude sediments of the Himalayas?
Four-legged prehistoric whale fossil with webbed feet found in Peru
Paleontologists discovered the fossilized bones of a four-legged prehistoric whale with webbed feet, off Peru's western coast in 2011. Even stranger, its fingers and toes had little hooves on them. It possessed razor-sharp teeth that it used to catch fish.
The mystery of frozen mammoth carcasses in Siberia
Scientists struggle to understand why these animals lived in Siberia and how they died.
A 95-million-year-old Sauropod skull discovered in Australia
Fossil from fourth-ever discovered specimen of a titanosaur may reinforce theory that dinosaurs traveled between South America and Australia.
Half-a-billion-year-old fossil reveals the origins of comb jellies
After researchers observed a definite similarity between several sea-floor inhabitants, a small-known carnivore species of the ocean has been assigned a new spot in the evolutionary tree of life.
