While they branched off from animals more than 1 billion years ago, making them more closely related to us than plants are, there is a large gap in the fossil record. For hundreds of millions of ...

The Nazi director refused, and bombing destroyed the fossils in 1944. Drawings, photos, and descriptions in journal articles were all that remained to prove Stromer’s Spinosaurus fossils ever ...

Fossil Ridge sprinter Addyson Smith won the Blue Federal Credit Union Athlete of the Week award as the top spring girls athlete. Smith had the fastest 100m and 200m times in Colorado this season ...

The top end of a specimen of Shishania, showing the three-dimensionality of its spines and their arrangement around an apical orifice. Credit: Zhang Xiguang A Cambrian fossil once thought to be a ...

And they also hold fossils that tell us about some of the very earliest life forms that we'll ever manage to see in the fossil record. So how did these mountains manage to hang on to these precious ...

The Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument (FLFO) is world-renown for fantastic shale fossil deposits (insects and plants), petrified Redwood trees, 6,000 acres with 15 miles of pristine hiking ...

Want to feel happier, lighter, less stuck? Try these fun daily activities. Monday Start Doodling Tuesday Write a Poem Wednesday Daydream Thursday Do 10% More Many of us have a narrow definition of ...

In 1971, Lawrence Loendorf, an archaeologist who had heard that there were bones in the cave, collected a few mammal fossils and a red jasper knife at the base of the pit. Other than the knife and ...

The superpredator’s teeth — abundant in the fossil record — are what McCormack ... creating ratio markers that can help draw up a sequence of the food chain. The researchers found that ...

A groundbreaking fossil discovery in Zhenghe county, Fujian province, has reshaped our understanding of avian origins. Scientists identified Baminornis zhenghensis, a 150-million-year-old bird ...

Scattered across the newly created island, scientists have uncovered more than 6,700 fossils of fish, reptiles, and mammals dredged from the deep, including the remains of two hominin skulls. This is ...