P aleontologists have uncovered fossils of a giant turtle species with some striking features, such as its shape, that lived ...
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 ...
The great white shark has an ancestor with teeth so sharp, it could chew through a turtle’s shell. Researchers have finally ...
Scientists say they have discovered fossils belonging to a "nightmarish" sea lizard species that hunted the oceans 66 million years ago. The creature, Khinjaria acuta, was about 26ft (8m) long ...
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The fossil is that of an echinoid, otherwise known as a sea urchin, and dates back to the Cretaceous period. It was found on Gorleston beach by Madelaine Miller, who spotted the object while ...
You don’t have to be an expert palaeontologist to find fossils of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. We spoke to Jack Wonfor from Wight Coast Fossils on the Isle of Wight to find out ...
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I deal with the rocky road to our modern understanding of earth As Lovecraft inspired the authors of the discovery, fossils inspired some ...
She has even worked on a fossil from a 200-million-year-old Eurypterida, or sea scorpion. McClain doesn't actually like puzzles very much, she says. But when it "turns into a dinosaur ...
An ancient wasp fossil found in the south has shown that winning designs are sometimes best left alone. Evolution has not altered the wasp in 34 million years, scientists have discovered.