• Our Ancient Fossils Toob is perfect for anyone, from basic enthusiasts to actual paleontologists! (fredmeyer.com)
  • Did you know that raptors€™ unique arced claw is actually thought to be a predatory tool, similar to the talons of a bird?Size: 1.5 inches long, 1.5 inches wide, and 12.8 inches tall, this Toob is a bit larger than the size of a standard American ruler and contains figurines of 10 different types of fossil that range from 1.25 to 3.75 inches tall. (fredmeyer.com)
  • 1.5 inches long, 1.5 inches wide, and 12.8 inches tall, this Toob is a bit larger than the size of a standard American ruler and contains figurines of 10 different types of fossil that range from 1.25 to 3.75 inches tall. (safariltd.com)
  • Ripples of mud in ancient lake bottoms could serve as evidence of earthquakes that ruptured in millennia past, researchers suggest. (livescience.com)
  • Researchers think up to 300 eggs may be present, some buried under the exposed fossils. (deccanchronicle.com)
  • When researchers examined the fossil under a microscope, they saw that not only had many of the insect's hard structures been preserved in the compressed shale, so had several internal organs and tissues, which are not normally fossilized. (icr.org)
  • The discovery of a new half-complete fossil in Morocco has led researchers, including from the Hassan II University of Casablanca in Morocco, to describe a new genus within that sub-family - called Antaecetus - with relatively large, heavily mineralised vertebrae that may have provided ballast to help it sink to the sea floor to feed. (natureasia.com)
  • A new look at a disregarded discovery is giving researchers insight into an ancient Swiss reptile. (earth.com)
  • In the resulting crater, the researchers found an astonishing collection of exceptionally well-preserved fossils. (uiowa.edu)
  • Researchers led by Schopf first described the fossils in the journal Science in 1993, and then substantiated their biological origin in the journal Nature in 2002. (ucla.edu)
  • The Wisconsin researchers, led by geoscience professor John Valley, used a secondary ion mass spectrometer - one of just a few in the world - to separate the carbon from each fossil into its constituent isotopes and determine their ratios. (ucla.edu)
  • The fossil was described by an international team of researchers from Oxford University Museum of Natural History, University of Southern California, Yale University, University of Leicester, and Imperial College London. (ancient-origins.net)
  • More than 100 years since they were first discovered, some of the world's most bizarre fossils have been identified as distant relatives of humans, thanks to the work of University of Adelaide researchers. (edu.au)
  • Glacier melt due to climate change led researchers to 23 ithcyosaur fossils in Patagonia, including a 4 meter long fossil of a pregnant female. (vice.com)
  • The researchers used the Carbon-14 method - usually applied by archaeologists for dating ancient remains and fossils - to determine how the plaques were. (lu.se)
  • Although new species are still being discovered, the modern goal of paleontology and the study of fossils is to fill out and properly order the tree of life. (fredmeyer.com)
  • The main focus of paleontology, fossils are mainly studied in terms of their age, how they were formed, and any insight they give into our current taxonomy of species. (safariltd.com)
  • Dinosaur Discoveries: Ancient Fossils, New Ideas exhibit showcases the world of modern paleontology, introducing a dynamic vision of dinosaurs and the scientists who study them. (echovermont.org)
  • Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries and its accompanying education and public programs were made possible by Bank of America. (amnh.org)
  • Phillips, E. M. & Walker, A. in The Primate Fossil Record (ed. (nature.com)
  • The Primate Fossil Record. (wikipedia.org)
  • Paleontologists have dug up fossils of some of the earliest birds called Archaeopteryx and numerous pterosaurs and other marine reptiles. (popsci.com)
  • Here we describe the first demonstrable crown strepsirrhines from the Afro-Arabian Palaeogene-a galagid and a possible lorisid from the late middle Eocene of Egypt, the latter of which provides the earliest fossil evidence for the distinctive strepsirrhine toothcomb. (nature.com)
  • The evidence offers the earliest record of vestigial limbs-once used in an animal's evolutionary past but that has lost its original function-- in a fossil lizard. (phys.org)
  • Pathways to Ancient Britain (PAB) focuses on three chronological periods of human presence in the British Isles, from the earliest occupation through to extinction of the Neanderthals and the emergence of modern humans. (nhm.ac.uk)
  • Molecular clocks estimate that diatom microalgae, one of Earth's foremost primary producers, originated near the Triassic-Jurassic boundary (200 Ma), which is close in age to the earliest, generally accepted diatom fossils of the genus Pyxidicula. (lu.se)
  • The earliest known human fossil, 1.8 million years ago, was identified as a Homo erectus mandible from Dimanisi in the Republic of Georgia. (medscape.com)
  • Scientists said on Monday fossils unearthed in South Africa provide a peek into this drama, telling the tale of an apex predator that over multiple generations migrated halfway around the world in a desperate, and ultimately failed, bid to survive. (devdiscourse.com)
  • A 2.4-billion-year-old basalt from the Palaeoproterozoic Ongeluk Formation in South Africa contains filamentous fossils in vesicles and fractures. (nature.com)
  • Fossils of hundreds of male and female adult Hamipterus individuals were found alongside juveniles and eggs at the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region site, making this Cretaceous Period species that lived 120 million years ago perhaps the best understood of all pterosaurs. (deccanchronicle.com)
  • Obviously, having a fossil species of a modern genus is really significant because it confirms the antiquity of this lineage,' [Prairie Research Institute paleoentomologist Sam] Heads said. (icr.org)
  • Paleontologists recently discovered the partial fossils of two new species of dinosaur just outside of Casablanca. (icr.org)
  • To work out whether ancient whales were predators or filter feeders, the scientists created 3D models of the teeth of the eight extinct whale species. (abc.net.au)
  • DNA from a rare, ancient polar bear fossil is yielding information about the response of the species to the devastation wrought by past climate changes. (sciencedaily.com)
  • A rare, ancient polar bear fossil discovered in Norway in 2004 is yielding a treasure trove of essential information about the age and evolutionary origins of the species whose future is now seen as synonymous with the devastation wrought by climate change. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The fact that our ancient polar bear lies almost directly at the splitting point between this unique group of brown bears and polar bears, that is, close to their most recent common ancestor of the two species, was very intriguing. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Palaeontologists from the UK and USA created an accurate 3D computer reconstruction of the 430 million-year-old fossil which allowed them to identify it as a species new to science . (ancient-origins.net)
  • Since their discovery, the fossils were assumed to have belonged to a species of shark. (zmescience.com)
  • It's been designed to include fossils that are known as 'type specimens' - valuable samples that are deemed representative of an entire species. (theverge.com)
  • When a researcher is examining a new fossil discovery that they suspect might be of a certain species, they can refer back to this type specimen for confirmation. (theverge.com)
  • A palaeontologist has come up with a novel way of studying historical manuscripts, by treating them as fossils from an extinct species. (bbc.co.uk)
  • We conclude that the Lower Jurassic Pyxidicula fossils were most likely calcareous nannofossils, whereas the Middle Jurassic Pyxidicula species has been reassigned to the Lower Cretaceous and is likely a testate amoeba, not a diatom. (lu.se)
  • Paleontologists have finally solved a 200-year mystery of a 4.7-meter-long Polycotylus latippinus plesiosaur fossil carrying a large fetus. (ibtimes.com)
  • June 30, 2021 Dinosaurs roamed the Earth more than 65 million years ago, and paleontologists and amateur fossil hunters are still unearthing traces of them today. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Paleontologists, however, cannot let go of, or even question, deep evolutionary time even when confronted with physical evidence such as this fossil. (icr.org)
  • To double-check his analysis, Heads dissected several katydid specimens of the same genus [ Arethaea ] to match what he was seeing in the fossil. (icr.org)
  • A half-complete fossil found in Morocco may represent a new genus of ancient whale. (natureasia.com)
  • Mark Uhen, from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, who was not involved in the study, says the more complete fossil specimen does show enough difference from Pachycetus to qualify as a separate genus. (natureasia.com)
  • After 1.5 million years ago (extinction of Paranthropus), all fossils shown are human (genus Homo). (wikipedia.org)
  • Ever since the first dinosaur fossil was identified almost 200 years ago, people have wondered how these fascinating animals lived, moved, and behaved. (amnh.org)
  • New dinosaur fossils are being discovered faster than ever before. (amnh.org)
  • 1 We do see remarkable and exceptional preservation of creatures, both of this fossil and increasing numbers of soft tissue ensconced within dinosaur fossils. (icr.org)
  • The following tables give an overview of notable finds of hominin fossils and remains relating to human evolution, beginning with the formation of the tribe Hominini (the divergence of the human and chimpanzee lineages) in the late Miocene, roughly 7 to 8 million years ago. (wikipedia.org)
  • The UK's largest assemblage of fossil hominin remains. (nhm.ac.uk)
  • Indeed, the Colorado Formation, where the fossil katydid (family Tettigoniidae) was found, is part of the famous Green River Formation that also extends into Wyoming and Utah. (icr.org)
  • 3 Interestingly, original soft tissue has been found in none other than a Green River Formation fossil. (icr.org)
  • Very few polar bear fossils have been found, leading to widely varying estimates of exactly when and how polar bears evolved," explains Oystein Wiig, polar bear expert and co-author at the University of Oslo's Natural History Museum. (sciencedaily.com)
  • But in 2004, an Icelandic geologist found a rare, well-preserved, 110,000-to-130,000-year-old, fossil jawbone and canine tooth in the Svalbard archipelago of Norway. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Evidence of evolution: Grades 6-8] The sequence of forms in the fossil record is reflected in the sequence of the rock layers in which they are found and indicates the order in which they evolved. (berkeley.edu)
  • The 241-million-year-old fossil was found in a calcareous deposit among fish and marine reptiles, and was mistakenly identified as a fish. (earth.com)
  • Over a decade after the fossil was first found, scientists finally pieced together the fascinating image of this ancient reptile. (earth.com)
  • Now, about 18km from the area that lone elephant occupies, we have found new evidence of her ancient ancestors in the form of fossil tracksites from the Pleistocene Epoch. (theconversation.com)
  • As was regularly the practice among workmen there at the time, they quietly sold any fossils they found to collectors for some extra money. (zmescience.com)
  • They are indistinguishable from mycelial fossils found in similar deep-biosphere habitats in the Phanerozoic, where they are attributed to fungi on the basis of chemical and morphological similarities to living fungi. (nature.com)
  • But despite fossils' wide range, the Sahara Desert contains many of the oldest, biggest, and most unusual fossils ever found. (listverse.com)
  • These fossils are found in the Eocene sediments of an ancient lake and its adjacent rivers and river deltas. (dalegreenwalt.com)
  • After applying stringent safeguards and evaluation criteria, however, the fossils found at each of the three sites were rejected as new diatom records. (lu.se)
  • 50 million years ago in what is now northwestern Colorado, a katydid died, sank to the bottom of a lake and was quickly buried in fine sediments, where it remained until its compressed fossil was recovered in recent years. (icr.org)
  • Unveiled earlier this week, the database is being billed as the world's first 3D fossil repository. (theverge.com)
  • Advanced technology allows scientists to look at these fossils in fresh ways. (amnh.org)
  • Find out how advanced technologies allow scientists to look at fossils in fresh ways. (echovermont.org)
  • We can find all the bones and tools we like, but they won't tell us about the experience of life for our ancient ancestors. (newscientist.com)
  • New fossil evidence reveals more about how African bush elephants' ancient ancestors moved about a South African landscape. (theconversation.com)
  • The early fossils shown are not considered ancestors to Homo sapiens but are closely related to ancestors and are therefore important to the study of the lineage. (wikipedia.org)
  • The fossilized bones of two ancient human ancestors were aboard Virgin Galactic's third commercial spaceflight in a celebration of discovery. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • When we burn fossil fuels to power our homes and cars, we're burning the remains of ancient life - plants and animals that were transformed over millions of years into coal or oil. (cbsnews.com)
  • Introducing the Eco-Friendly Just Stop Oil hoodie, the perfect way to show your support for the movement against oil and other fossil fuels. (earthtimes.org)
  • The overriding aim of this project is to analyse the economic and environmental trade-offs of policy interventions to promote the use of agricultural land for producing biomass to reduce the use of fossil-based fuels. (lu.se)
  • We report the occurrence of isopods associated with ancient chondrichthyans which also represent rare cases of the preservation of several fossil isopods on larger organisms. (palass.org)
  • Unless they represent an unknown branch of fungus-like organisms, the fossils imply that the fungal clade is considerably older than previously thought, and that fungal origin and early evolution may lie in the oceanic deep biosphere rather than on land. (nature.com)
  • Scattered across the globe, fossils are traces of organisms from a past geologic age that have been embedded and preserved in the Earth's crust. (listverse.com)
  • The project's primary goal, according to BGS chief curator Dr. Michael Howe, is to share more fossils with the public than a museum showroom can allow. (theverge.com)
  • A fascinating discovery of a fossil insect has recently been made by evolutionists in Colorado. (icr.org)
  • Evolutionists understandably attempt to put a secular spin on this contemporary insect fossil discovery. (icr.org)
  • Trace fossils reveal an "life and death struggle between predator and prey" that played in what is now Taiwan. (vice.com)
  • Our LuxeRox Orthoceras Fossil plate is quarried from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco then hand-polished to reveal the detail and beauty of these extinct marine animals from 370 million years ago. (luxerox.com)
  • The first completely aquatic ancient whales were a family known as the basilosaurids, which are thought to have existed in the late Middle Eocene, around 41 to 34 million years ago. (natureasia.com)
  • Although the first specimens were studied in 1911, it took until 1997 for the fossils to be described as a group on their own: the vetulicolians. (edu.au)
  • Yates, D. Ancient katydid fossil reveals muscles, digestive tract, glands and a testicle . (icr.org)
  • Lindqvist explains that ancient DNA studies have tended to focus on the mitochondrial genome because it generally reveals characteristics useful for evolutionary analyses and allows for DNA to be retrieved from ancient samples most easily. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Evidence of evolution: Grades 6-8] Fossils provide evidence of past life. (berkeley.edu)
  • A new analysis of the oldest known fossil microorganisms provides strong evidence to support an increasingly widespread understanding that life in the universe is common. (ucla.edu)
  • Scientists present more evidence for the oldest known fossils on Earth, which could bolster the search for alien life. (vice.com)
  • This led us to systematically reexamine published evidence in support of Lower- and Middle-Jurassic Pyxidicula fossils. (lu.se)
  • Drummond constructs exacting replicas of creatures from the deep fossil record, paying specific attention to the detail of their underbellies, which are often obliterated by the passage of time. (designyoutrust.com)
  • What secrets and previously unknown facts of evolution will you uncover when you dig up and analyze these incredible fossil figurines? (safariltd.com)
  • A flattened-but still mostly complete-turtle fossil from the late Jurassic period was just unearthed in present-day Germany. (popsci.com)
  • The very good preservation of the fossils in the layers of limestone can be explained by the environmental conditions at the time," co-author and University of Tübingen paleoecologist Andreas Matzke said in a statement . (popsci.com)
  • The specimen shows it had to be rapidly and catastrophically buried, "[b]ut perhaps the most striking feature of this fossil is the really exceptional, remarkable preservation of internal organs-organs that you just don't see in fossils. (icr.org)
  • The photographs of the Kishenehn Formation fossil insects that you will find on this site are beautiful, Mother Nature's preservation of the specimens astounding. (dalegreenwalt.com)
  • The layers of mud at these sites were laid down at the bottom of an ancient lake that preceded the formation of the Dead Sea. (livescience.com)
  • The fossil was named Carbonemys because it was discovered in 2005 in a coal mine that was part of northern Colombia's Cerrejon formation. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Thomas, B. Green River Formation Fossil Has Original Soft Tissue . (icr.org)
  • After 11,500 years ago (11.5 ka, beginning of the Holocene), all fossils shown are Homo sapiens (anatomically modern humans), illustrating recent divergence in the formation of modern human sub-populations. (wikipedia.org)
  • It's a decidedly 21st-century technology, but now 3D printing is being harnessed to highlight mesmerizing relics from the ancient past. (theverge.com)
  • These ancient relics grant insight into the history of our planet and many creatures, including humans. (listverse.com)
  • Most aspects of the appearance and lives of the ancient creatures remained unknown. (earth.com)
  • Although the fossil is just 3 centimeters (1.18 inches) wide, its many long tentacles would have made it appear quite monstrous to other small sea creatures alive at the time. (ancient-origins.net)
  • The fossils belong to 500-million-year-old blind water creatures, known to scientists as "vetulicolians" (pronounced: ve-TOO-lee-coal-ee-ans) . (edu.au)
  • Although not directly related to humans in the evolutionary line, we can confirm that these ancient water creatures are among our distant cousins," says the lead author of the paper, Dr Diego Garcia-Bellido , ARC Future Fellow with the University's Environment Institute . (edu.au)
  • A new and innovative sub-discipline embraced within this theme is molecular palaeobiology, which concerns the investigation of fossil biomarkers and labile soft tissue structures, using cutting edge imaging, molecular and chemical techniques. (lu.se)
  • He analyzes important new 'feathered' dinosaurs from Liaoning, China, and develops theoretical methods for better understanding phylogenetic relationships and pattern in the fossil record. (amnh.org)
  • Dr. Norell's theoretical work focuses on developing methodology for evaluating the effect of missing data on large data sets, sensitivity methods for character weighting, and using phylogeny to estimate patterns in the fossil record such as diversity and extinction. (amnh.org)
  • Along with elephant tracks from sites on the Cape south coast, we identified what appears to be the first example in the global trace fossil record of elephant trunk-drag impressions. (theconversation.com)
  • Excluding the Pyxidicula fossils widens the gap between the estimated time of origin and the oldest abundant fossil diatom record to 75 million years. (lu.se)
  • Similar studies have been carried out on fossil lizards and champsosaurs from this region. (amnh.org)
  • We also study various fossil groups and their palaeobiology and palaeoecology to understand forcing and feed-back mechanisms and biodiversity changes in ancient environments. (lu.se)
  • Sadly, it is doubtful if any more remains of this pterosaur will be discovered, as there are no longer any exposures of the rock from which the fossils came. (zmescience.com)
  • The words "intriguing," "mysterious," and "fascinating" describe the study of ancient remains. (medscape.com)
  • Once the database is more extensive, however, scientists will be able to conduct their evaluations using fossil replicas they printed themselves. (theverge.com)
  • This area is also considered one of the most important sites for Mesozoic fossils , which began about 250 million years ago and lasted until the extinction of the dinosaurs roughly 66 million years ago. (popsci.com)
  • Through petrographic and stratigraphic analysis of sedimentary rocks from around the world we reconstruct ancient marine and terrestrial environments and study their evolution in time and space. (lu.se)
  • But analysis of fossilised teeth of ancient whales, published today in Biology Letters , shows the animals' teeth were bladed - perfect for catching and cutting up prey, not for filter feeding. (abc.net.au)
  • We wondered which teeth are the fossil whale teeth more like: the seals that filter feed, or the carnivores that live on land and definitely use their teeth to cut up food? (abc.net.au)
  • The ancient whales would have been smaller than these killer whales, but had sharper teeth. (abc.net.au)
  • But this new fossil was smaller than a typical Pachycetus and the teeth were more delicate. (natureasia.com)
  • As there are thousands of fossils, mostly fragmentary, often consisting of single bones or isolated teeth with complete skulls and skeletons rare, this overview is not complete, but show some of the most important findings. (wikipedia.org)
  • IGS researcher Paul Liu poses with a representation of the ancient sea scorpion fossil Liu and his colleagues discovered in northeast Iowa. (uiowa.edu)
  • The study is the most detailed ever conducted on microorganisms preserved in such ancient fossils. (ucla.edu)
  • A new web database out of the UK is offering users anywhere in the world the opportunity to explore thousands of three-dimensional fossil models online - and even print some of them for hands-on study. (theverge.com)
  • It was just an amazing rainbow of autofluorescence,' said the lead author of a study on the spider fossils. (vice.com)
  • This study underscores the difficulties in discovering and validating ancient microfossils. (lu.se)
  • S. parsonsi is not the first notable fossil uncovered in the limestone deposits of Solnhofen , a spot south of the city of Nuremberg in the valley of the Altmühl. (popsci.com)
  • The site represents one of only a few such "Lagerstätten" (the scientific term for a fossil deposit of this magnitude) from the Middle Ordovician period. (uiowa.edu)
  • It represents one of many important finds recovered from the Herefordshire fossil site in the UK, which is famous for preserving both the soft as well as the hard parts of fossils. (ancient-origins.net)
  • The fossils have been part of these collections for almost 100 years now, being first uncovered between 1851 and 1900. (zmescience.com)
  • Right now, the database is primarily home to ancient invertebrate specimens - such as plants, corals, and bivalves. (theverge.com)
  • The list of fossils begins with Graecopithecus, dated some 7.2 million years ago, which may or may not still be ancestral to both the human and the chimpanzee lineage. (wikipedia.org)
  • The site, where young prehistoric megasharks ate their fill to grow large, is the first ancient shark nursery in the U.S. to be confirmed with fossils. (vice.com)
  • But closer examination of the vertebrae from this fossil, and other broken vertebrae at the site, revealed a much thicker outer layer of cortical bone. (natureasia.com)
  • Unicorns fossils are a mythological creature, no more real than dragons, which accidentally mentioned in the Bible. (filmywiki.com)
  • Archeologists have been digging up fossils in deserts for decades-especially the Sahara Desert, the biggest hot desert in the world. (listverse.com)
  • In contrast, the research shows ancient whales had a number of blades and bumps on each tooth - a 'mountain range' as opposed to the killer whale's 'single peak. (abc.net.au)
  • A modern killer whale is relatively large compared to many of these ancient whales,' Dr Evans said. (abc.net.au)
  • Ewan Fordyce, a professor in palaeontology at the University of Otago in New Zealand, said the research helped discard old hypotheses that ancient whales filter-fed. (abc.net.au)
  • The ancient reptile swam in the shallow waters near a string of islands in today's Bavaria. (popsci.com)
  • And while the database is currently limited to UK samples, Howe and his colleagues would like to see it incorporate fossils from around the globe. (theverge.com)