In Southwestern Germany, a team of researchers discovered teeth that were millions of years old and presumably belonged to an ancient Euro-Asian primate last September. Yet after the discovery was made public, controversy opened up about the interpretation of our earliest existence
Fossil of largest Jurassic pterosaur found on Skye
Several years ago, workers breaking ground for a power plant in New Zealand unearthed a record of a lost time: a 60-ton trunk from a kauri tree, the largest tree species in New Zealand. The tree, which grew 42,000 years ago, was preserved in a bog and its rings spanned 1700 years, capturing a tumultuous time when the world was turned upside down—at least magnetically speaking
LETHBRIDGE, AB – A local mining company has made not one, but two pre-historic discoveries.
Enchanted Designs, an ammolite mining and jewelry company, was working in an area south of Lethbridge on January 26 when they found something out of the ordinary.
Joe Sanchez, Head Technician at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, says the crew uncovered part of the skull and shoulder girdle of a mosasaur, a large marine reptile that lived during the late Cretaceous period 145.5 million to 65 million years ago.
LiveScience.com describes mosasaurs as the “apex ocean predator of the dinosaur age.”
A new study revealed that Portugal was once home to a huge 33ft-long dinosaur that may be a new species of a spinosaurus. A reanalysis of its fossils showed a crocodile-like skull and spiny back. It likely roamed the Earth about 130 million years ago.
Initial studies suggested that the fossils belonged to Baryonyx walkeri, but the reanalysis said otherwise. The team has renamed the new species of spinosaurus Iberospinus natarioi. The team considered it one of the most complete specimens of spinosaurus they found, says Professor Octavio Mateus of the NOVA School of Science and Technology.
A two million-year-old skull in South Africa that sheds new light on human evolution has been discovered by Australian researchers.
The fossil was a Paranthropus robustus male, a species that lived as a ‘cousin species’ alongside our early human ancestors.
Paleontologists in Australia have discovered a new species of crocodile that could have eaten a dinosaur for its last meal around 95 million years ago. Daily Star reported that the fossilized crocodile, dubbed the Broken Dinosaur Killer, was uncovered on a sheep station in outback Queensland.
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