@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists in southern Germany have discovered the fossilized remains of a previously unknown pufferfish. A team from the Bamberg Museum of Natural History made the find in a stone quarry in nearby Wattendorf. Matthias Mäuser, the head of the museum, said the pufferfish lived around 150 million years […]
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WFS News: Archaeology fossil teeth discovery in Germany could re-write human history


@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A 9.7-million-year-old discovery has left a team of German scientists scratching their heads. The teeth seem to belong to a species only known to have appeared in Africa several million years later. A team of German archaeologists discovered a puzzling set of teeth in the former riverbed of […]
Lagenanectes richterae: Ancient sea reptile found in Germany


@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A previously unrecognized 132 million-year-old fossilized sea monster from northern Germany has been identified by an international team of researchers. Findings published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. The bizarre sea creature was a plesiosaur, an extinct long-necked aquatic reptile resembling the popular image of the Loch Ness […]