Rare fossil of ancient dog species discovered by paleontologists
These canines are believed to have roamed the San Diego area up to 28 million years ago.
Paleontology
Well-preserved ice age woolly rhino found in Siberia
The remarkably preserved carcass of an Ice Age-era woolly rhino has been unearthed by locals in eastern Siberia.
110-million-year-old dinosaur very well preserved accidentally discovered by miners in Canada
The remains seem like they were only a few weeks old despite the fact that the dinosaur died over 110 million years ago.
Rhino-like ‘thunder beasts’ grew massive in the evolutionary blink of an eye after dinosaurs died off
Only 16 million years after the dinosaur-killing asteroid struck, ancient mammals known as 'thunder beasts' grew 1,000 times bigger.
Fossil of an ancient spider species from Germany estimated to be 310-million-years old
The fossil comes from a strata that dates back 310 to 315 million years and marks the first Palaeozoic spider ever found in Germany.
A mysterious grapefruit-sized fur ball turned out to be a ‘perfectly preserved’ 30,000-year-old squirrel
Gold miners unearthed a mangled lump of mummified flesh, which upon further inspection turned out to be a balled-up Arctic ground squirrel.
Giant 180-million-year-old ‘sea dragon’ fossil found in UK reservoir
The gigantic skeleton of the extinct prehistoric reptile, which lived alongside the dinosaurs about 180 million years ago during the Jurassic Period, was found during routine maintenance on a British nature reserve.
500-million-year-old sea creature with limbs under its head unearthed
A new study reveals that one of the earliest animal fossils ever discovered, fossils of a 520 million-year-old sea creature, has been discovered by scientists. The fossilized animal, a fuxhianhuiid…
Octopuses were around before dinosaurs: The oldest known octopus fossil is 330 million-year-old
Scientists unearthed 330 million-year-old octopus fossil in Montana, which means octopuses have been around since before the dinosaurs.
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.
