Researchers have unearthed fossils of numerous extinct marine creatures that lived hundreds of millions of years ago, and these fossils could help understand ancient geography.
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Predators that roamed the Earth millions of years before dinosaurs ‘Pampaphoneus biccai’
More evidence uncovered about Pampaphoneus biccai, the ‘bloodthirsty’ predator that roamed the Earth millions of years before dinosaurs.
Oldest plant eating long necked dinosaur species discovered in India
Discovery of plant eating long necked dinosaur suggests India may have been an important center of dinosaur evolution.
500 million year old jellyfish fossil discovered in Burgess Shale
Paleontologists claim to have found an ancient jellyfish, whose body resembles modern moon jellies and box jellies.
Aboriginal cutting tools discovered in WA
Ancient Aboriginal artifacts, possibly dumped in a freshwater spring, have been discovered off the coast of Western Australia.
Neolithic sunken road in Croatia
Off the coast of Croatia, a group of underwater archaeologists from the University of Zadar found a sunken road from the Neolithic period.
A 244 million year old marine reptile fossil discovered in Yunnan, China
In Luoping County, Yunnan Province in southwest China, paleontologists found the fossil of a new marine reptile species that dates back 244 million years.
Dating to around 3.6 billion years ago, the Pilbara region of Western Australia is home to the fossilized evidence of the Earth’s oldest lifeforms
The Pilbara began to form more than 3.6 billion years ago and its vast landscape of deep pindan reds panoramas is an ancient place.
Greece’s Twin Lakes of Zerelia made by a meteorite crash
A rare example of a body of water that was created by the catastrophic impact of a meteorite is the twin lakes in Central Greece together referred to as Zerelia.
The world’s largest salt desert, Salar de Uyuni
Salar de Uyuni, salt desert in Bolivia may be an amazing experience. The region offers a different and always fascinating view in every season of the year.