The tip of a right flipper of the new plesiosaur fossil, with two scales along the trailing edge. A new study suggests that some plesiosaurs, in addition to fishy scales on their flippers ...

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks that lived alongside the dinosaurs. By Asher Elbein Asher Elbein ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

The fossil suggests that modern birds evolved before the dinosaur-killing asteroid, perhaps in Antarctica Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent An illustration of the Vegavis iaai diving for fish ...

Now, a new discovery offers a clearer picture of their external appearance: Scientists re-examined an old plesiosaur fossil, which had been sitting in a museum’s storage for decades, and ...

Things like footprints, burrows, eggs and even poo (called coprolite) can be fossilised too. A fossil is the preserved remains or traces of a dead organism. The process by which a fossil is formed ...

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Research led by the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Ohio University has found evidence of hominin activity at a Romanian fossil site dating to at least 1.95 million years ago.

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