Largest ever flightless bird lived in Australia 50,000 years ago and weighed up to 1,323lbs with a HUGE head more than 1.5 feet long — but its brain was squeezed for space Experts studied fossils of ‘mihirungs’, the name given to Australia’s giant birds The largest, Dromornis stirtoni, was able to reach some 10 feet (3 … Read more
Dinosaur fossil from 98 million-years-ago unearthed in Argentina may have been the largest animal to ever walk the Earth, study claims The fossil remains — including tail and pelvic bones — were uncovered in 2012 The giant titanosaur sauropod dinosaur would have had a long neck and tail It was preserved in a muddy floodplain in what … Read more
Fossil ‘shark spines’ unearthed in an English phosphate mine a century ago are actually jaw fragments of 100 million-year-old toothless pterosaurs — including an unknown species The fossils were collected in the Fens by Victorian miners and sold for profit They came from a rock formation that dates back to the early Cenomanian The palaeontologists … Read more
Fossils reveal a new species of burrowing reptile with features of an anteater and chameleon that lived 220 MILLION years ago in what is now the Petrified Forest National Park Tiny fossils found in Arizona once belong to a new species of an ancient lizard Skybalonyx skapter is a new drepanosaur that spent most of its … Read more
Small fossils have been unearthed in China that belonged to a monkey about 6.4 million years ago. The remains were found a southeastern Yunan Province mine, making them the oldest to be found outside of Africa. Researchers from Penn State University have obtained a heelbone and jawbone with teeth that are believed to have been … Read more
Researchers led from France made the first ever three dimensional reconstructions of four of the archaic human’s infants by scanning fossilised remains.
3D reconstruction of Cretaceous beetle preserved in amber for 99 million years finally reveals its ‘mysterious’ shape Mysteriomorphidae beetles were first identified around a year ago, experts said However, as their given name hints, their body shape had been quite unclear New specimens from the Kachin amber mines in northern Myanmar were found Experts used a … Read more
Doctor Who actor Tom Baker honoured by scientists who name a 450 million-year-old trilobite after him Australian experts named the newly-discovered species ‘Gravicalymene bakeri’ The specimen was found preserved within the shale rocks of Northern Tasmania Both experts said they were inspired to study science by watching Doctor Who Mr Baker said that he was ‘delighted’ … Read more
World’s oldest sperm is discovered inside a female crustacean that mated and was then trapped in amber 100 million years ago By Ian Randall For Mailonline Published: 09:15 BST, 16 September 2020 | Updated: 09:15 BST, 16 September 2020 Scientists have discovered what they believe to be the oldest fossilised animal sperm from around 100 … Read more
Primitive horse the size of a small dog that looked like a badger is reconstructed after a skeleton of the 48-million-year-old species is found in a German oil pit The horse specimen was recovered from the Messel Pit near Frankfurt in 2015 This UNESCO World Heritage site is famous for its stunningly preserved fossils Propalaeotherium voigti … Read more