The work could have implications for how aquatic species respond to our ... Discovery of 'Punk' and 'Emo' Fossils Challenges Our Understanding of Ancient Molluscs Jan. 8, 2025 — Researchers have ...

What makes this discovery remarkable is that the original fossil, found in Egypt, was destroyed over 80 years ago during World War II. The findings were made possible by analyzing old photographs ...

Researchers aboard the E/V Nautilus recently discovered four rare Palau nautiluses, ancient cephalopods also known as "living fossils," in the deep waters near the German Channel. The sighting ...

The fossil that led to the discovery has a dramatic backstory. The beast’s remains were originally excavated in 1914 during an expedition to Bahariya Oasis, a site in Egypt’s western desert ...

The fossil was unearthed in the 1950s in a former lignite mining area in the Geiseltal in Germany. It was initially misclassified and thus led a shadowy existence until its rediscovery.

Fossils of these mysterious stalks, dating to between 350 million and 420 million years ago, reveal “trunks up to 24 feet … high and as wide as 3 feet,” reported National Geographic’s Anne ...

Jan. 10, 2025 — anthropologists have analyzed a skull that was found in the ruins of Ephesos (Turkey) in 1929. It was long speculated that it could be the remains of Arsino IV, the sister of the ...

Palaeontology is the study of prehistoric species, mostly ones that are extinct. It focuses primarily on fossil data, using a variety of physical, chemical and biological techniques to analyse them.

The landscape was teeming with fossils: there were brachiopods everywhere we stepped, discs of crinoids dotting the shale with little Os and bryozoans snaking like auburn roots across slabs of ...