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Reconstructed Triassic landscape at the Museum am Löwentor, Stuttgart (Germany), with Chiniquodon theotonicus (left), Batrachotomus kupferzellensis (right), and, poorly visible…

Under the watchful eye of scientists, volunteers clean the skeleton of a mastodonsaurus A huge fossilised skeleton weighing 1,300 kilograms…

Fossils often preserve bones well enough to reveal the shape of an ancient animal, but traces of soft tissues are…

PC: National History Museum A collection of fossils that spent generations in museum drawers has revealed an unexpected chapter in…

A new scientific study is quietly changing the way researchers understand human evolution. It focuses on something surprisingly small: ancient…

Scientists have unveiled Nagatitan Chaiyaphumensis, a colossal plant-eating dinosaur found in Thailand. Image Credit: Gemini Imagine yourself standing under a…

A young boy named Matthew Berger found important fossils in South Africa. These fossils, named Australopithecus sediba, showed a mix…

In 1909, Charles Doolittle Walcott (first from left) discovered the Burgess Shale formation in British Columbia, revealing exceptionally preserved soft-bodied…

Scientists discovered a 46-million-year-old mosquito fossil in Montana. This ancient insect was perfectly preserved in shale, not amber. Its abdomen…

A New South Wales farmer’s routine task unearthed an extraordinary fossilized rainforest, preserved in iron-rich rock. This rare find at…