Paleontologists have uncovered fossils of a giant turtle species with some striking features, such as its shape, that lived tens of millions of years ago in South America. The research team found ...
The way that turtles evolved into their modern form, with a shell fused to their skeleton and a beaklike face without teeth, has been described as “one of evolution’s most enduring puzzles”.
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I’m a journalist specializing in the quirky side of science and space. Tridentinosaurus antiquus is a fossil with an enigmatic history ...
Paleontologists found a new species of echinoderm that was halfway through the process of regeneration when it died.
For example, the 2021 discovery of 480-million-year-old starfish-like animals in the Anti-Atlas mountains in Morocco helped us understand how these animals first appeared. Such fossils are the ...
BUENOS AIRES, April 25 (Reuters) - Paleontologists from Argentina announced the discovery of a new medium-sized herbivorous dinosaur, which was a fast runner and lived about 90 million years ago ...
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Fossils of small plesiosaurs, long-necked marine reptiles from the age of dinosaurs, have been found in a 100-million year old river system that is now Morocco's Sahara Desert. This discovery ...
Should bankers take a Hippocratic Oath? Thanks to recent financial scandals and fraud, public trust in the financial industry is low. But a new study published in the journal Nature shows that ...
Argentine paleontologists Rodrigo Alvarez and Sebastian Rozadilla look at fossils of the 'Chakisaurus nekul', a newly-discovered herbivorous dinosaur that lived about 90 million years ago in the ...