MORE: Underwater camera captures elusive tentacled creature 3 miles below ocean surface The 506 million-year-old fossil is an imprint of a ... the radiodont group, an ancient line of sea predators ...

MORE: Underwater camera captures elusive tentacled creature 3 miles below ocean surface The 506 million-year-old fossil is an imprint of a ... the radiodont group, an ancient line of sea predators ...

While amber from this area has long been used for jewellery, it has gained scientific importance in recent years with the discovery of ancient ... to tiny leaf imprints, each fossil tells a ...

A rare fossil discovery in Antarctica has upended scientific understanding of ancient marine reptiles. Buried beneath 68 million years of sediment, a soft-shelled egg as big as a football has ...

Eventually, I. patagonicus was given the name Idiorophus by Kellogg in 1925. The fossil specimen was recovered somewhere in the Early Miocene Gaiman Formation (20 million years old), at Cerro ...

The mosasaur was the apex predator of the seas when dinosaurs roamed land. Geologists working in Mississippi recently stumbled upon an incredible find: the fossil of an ancient marine apex predator.

Scientists recently described the insect as a new genus and species, using this fossil and one other that ... scientists were able to assign the ancient insect to a modern tribe of cicadas called ...

“We have all of these fossil bones, so I was digging through, and I kept coming across this one vertebra. I could not figure out what it was,” said Jason Bourque, a fossil preparator in the museum’s ...

Scientists said the fossil differed from modern cicadas in terms of forewings. A well-preserved 47-million-year-old cicada fossil has been discovered, and it is so detailed that even the veins in ...