On Christmas morning, Molly Sampson told her mother that she wanted to go fossil hunting at a nearby beach and uncover an extinct megalodon fossil. She eventually succeeded in doing so.
Although we are aware that current birds are descended from dinosaurs like the T. rex, when and how did this happen? The Chinese fossil from 120 million years ago sheds light on the evolution of current birds.
In Luoping County, Yunnan Province in southwest China, paleontologists found the fossil of a new marine reptile species that dates back 244 million years.