Could dinosaurs have been overgrown squirrels instead of overgrown lizards? The possibility arose after scientists found the fossil of a squirrel-tail dinosaur that suggests dinosaurs were “feathered,” National Geographic News reported. National Geographic said the “exquisitely preserved” 150-million-year-old fossil was unearthed from a Bavarian limestone quarry, and was dubbed Sciurumimus albersdoerferi —a nod to Scirius, the […]

A big find became a big loss after vandals smashed rare dinosaur fossils near the Red Willow River in northern Alberta. Dr. Phil Bell is a palaeontologist with the Pipestone Creek Dinosaur Initiative (PCDI). He, along with a group of experts from the University of Alberta and volunteers, had spent a week — beginning June […]

A team of British and Canadian scientists probing a famous fossil site in Newfoundland and Labrador has discovered traces of some of the earliest animal remains on Earth — a 579-million-year-old nest of petrified “babies” born to a primitive, fern-shaped marine organism known as a rangeomorph and then promptly buried in ash from a primordial […]

Riffin T Sajeev,the founder of World fossil society  And his brother Russel T Sajeev got awarded as one among 120 talents of India.

An 18-member international team of researchers that includes James Kennett, professor of earth science at UC Santa Barbara, has discovered melt-glass material in a thin layer of sedimentary rock in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Syria. According to the researchers, the material — which dates back nearly 13,000 years — was formed at temperatures of 1,700 […]

German researchers say they have discovered a fossil of a feathered hatchling that may be the earliest evidence of a plumed, meat-eating dinosaur that was not closely related to birds. The fossil is believed to belong to a young land-based dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period, some 170 million years ago, according to the study […]

Those delicious flatfishes, like halibut and sole, are also evolutionary puzzles. Their profoundly asymmetrical heads have one of the most unusual body plans among all backboned animals (vertebrates) but the evolution of their bizarre anatomy has long been a mystery. How did flatfishes, with both of their eyes on one side of their head, evolve? […]

Dinosaurs may not have been the slow, sunbathing reptiles researchers used to think. In fact, they may have been warm-blooded, new research suggests.The researchers studied the “growth lines” on animal bones, which are similar to the growth rings in tree trunks. During slow-growing times like during the winter, they are darker and narrower, while in fast-growing […]

A FOSSIL uncovered on a Melbourne beach belonged to a giant prehistoric bird with a five-metre wing span and serrated beak, scientists report. The 5 million-year-old lower leg bone is the first evidence the ancient sea bird once soared across Australia’s skies. A Museum Victoria palaeontologist, Erich Fitzgerald, who led analysis of the specimen, said […]