According to fresh evidence, the initial appearance of shark-like ‘jawed fish’ may have occurred 15 million years earlier than previously assumed.
Category: Paleontology
1.4 million-year-old jawbone discover in Spain, that may be Europe’s earliest known human relative
The fossil was discovered in June in Sima del Elefante (Pit of the Elephant in Spanish), an archeological site in the Atapuerca Mountains close to Burgos in northern Spain that is renowned for its extensive fossil collection.
1000 fossilized eggs find in China, the findings provided evidence of dinosaurs’ lack of diversity
In China, 1000 fossilized eggs were found, providing evidence for the hypothesis that the lack of diversity among the dinosaurs may have contributed to their decline and eventual extinction.
Fossilized vomit found in Utah
The prehistoric vomit was discovered in the Morrison Formation, a well-known Late Jurassic site noted for its dinosaur bones. Fossils from the late Jurassic era are abundant in this section of sedimentary strata that spans the Western ABD (164 million to 145 million years ago)
Paleontologists find a new species of crocodile with the thickest eggs ever
Paleontologists have uncovered a new crocodile species that lived with the last dinosaurs and laid the thickest eggs ever discovered.
A PEI schoolteacher discovered a fossil that could be 300 million years old
After stumbling over a fossil that could be 300 million years old, a PEI schoolteacher made the discovery of a lifetime.
Excavations have begun when mastodon bones found in West Michigan
Road crews in Kent County discovered prehistoric bones while digging along a western Michigan road earlier this week. The Kent County Road crew discovered a mastodon.
The best evidence for early humans in North America is found in the New Mexico mammoths
Humans broke down their carapaces with pieces of their long bones and rendered their fat over a fire, according to the remains found at a mammoth butchering site.
This prehistoric fishapod turned back around after seeing life on land
The discovery of Qikiqtania, as the hesitant fishapod would later come to be known, arrives from the lab of Dr Neil Shubin – who also happened to co-discover Tiktaalik back in 2004.
Dinosaur footprints dating back 100 million years discovered in a Chinese restaurant
Dinosaur footprints stretching back 100 million years have been discovered in southwestern China by a keen-eyed diner in an outside courtyard of a restaurant.