Geologist unearths ancient rocks from ocean floor dating back two billion years Uncovering a rare, two-billion-year-old window into the Earth’s mantle, a University of Houston professor and his team have found our planet’s geological history is more complex than previously thought. Jonathan Snow, assistant professor of geosciences at UH, led a team of researchers in […]

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Scientists from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt have investigated the extensive collection of fruits and seeds from the Messel pit. They found 140 different plant species, 65 of which were previously unknown. The results were published July 27 in the series “Abhandlungen der Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung.” They show that Messel had one of […]

Australian cavers have stumbled upon a vast network of tunnels containing fossils that could offer key insights into species’ adaptation to climate change, scientists have confirmed. The limestone caves in Australia’s far north contained what University of Queensland paleontologist Gilbert Price described as a “fossil goldmine” of species ranging from minute rodents and frogs to […]

A gintic oyster fossil that was trawled up by fisherman has been MRI scanned to reveal what could be a pearl as large as a golf ball. The mollusk was given to agan aquarium where experts used growth rings to determine how old it was, and were keen to discover if there was a rare […]

An international team of paleontologists has discovered two ancient species of South American rodents, including the oldest chinchilla, a discovery that substantiates what might be the earliest grasslands in the world. The two new species lived near a chain of volcanoes about 32.5 million years ago in what are now the steep slopes of a […]

The mystery of how an abundance of fossils have been marvellously preserved for nearly half a billion years in a remote region of Africa has been solved by a team of geologists from the University of Leicester’s Department of Geology. They have established that an ancient wind brought life to the region – and was […]

Period: Late Cretaceous Order, Suborder, Family: Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Hadrosauridae Location: North America (United States) Length: 30 feet (9 meters) Since it was named in 1979 by John Horner and Robert Makela, Maiasaura has become one of the most famous dinosaurs. It has provided information about how it cared for its young and the early development of dinosaurs. The name Maiasaura […]

The fossilised marks of raindrops that fell 2.7 billion years ago in South Africa have revealed the composition of the Earth’s early atmosphere. According to a new study published in Nature today, the early Earth had an atmosphere with similar air pressure to the present day, but much higher levels of greenhouse gases. The findings, from a […]

Scientists recently announced the discovery of the largest Trilobites ever seen. Trilobites were primitive marine arthropods distantly related to modern-day horseshoe crabs. They lived for millions of years before the dinosaurs.   Trilobite Fossil Some of the fossils from Portugal measure nearly three feet long, far more than even the largest trilobite fossils previously known. […]