Elrathia kingii is a trilobite species commonly found in the Wheeler Formation of Utah, USA. It is a medium-sized trilobite, with large specimens measuring approximately 4–5 cm in length, and lived during the Cambrian, around 500 million years ago. Like all trilobites, it was a marine arthropod that inhabited […]
Researchers in Argentina discovered fossils of an Early Jurassic dinosaur whose stomach contained remains of its last meal, preserved for approximately 180 million years. Found in marine-deltaic deposits of the Los Molles Formation, the fossils belong to a previously unknown ornithischian dinosaur, now named […]
Scientists discovered a dinosaur footprint approximately 1.7 metres long in a remote area of Australia’s north-western coast. According to Reuters, it may be the largest dinosaur footprint known. Left by a giant sauropod, it is among 21 types of dinosaur tracks identified in […]
A study published in Nature proposed a revision of the traditional classification of dinosaurs, which had been used for over a century and was based largely on pelvic anatomy. Non-avian dinosaurs were traditionally divided into two groups: Ornithischia and Saurischia. The first group included […]
British and Australian researchers identified what was described as the first known fossilised dinosaur brain tissue. The fossil was discovered in Sussex, England, in 2004, but its significance was recognised more than a decade later. […]
Chinese palaeontologists described a dinosaur tail exceptionally well preserved in amber. The specimen is estimated to be more than 99 million years old. On 9 December 2016, CNN reported the discovery, which attracted international attention as a significant palaeontological find […]
Woolly mammoths became extinct approximately 4,000 years ago. Research suggests that the last populations carried genetic mutations that may have reduced their ability to adapt to environmental change. Woolly mammoths once inhabited North America and Siberia […]
Although birds are known to belong within the dinosaur evolutionary tree, understanding how wings developed has been difficult when only skeletal remains were available. Researchers used a technique that illuminated otherwise barely visible traces of soft tissue […]
British researchers reported fossil structures interpreted as microorganisms that may be 3.77–4.29 billion years old. If confirmed, they would represent the oldest known evidence of life on Earth, according to Agerpres. These microfossils were found in quartz-rich rocks at Nuvvuagittuq, north-east […]
More than 20 types of dinosaur tracks were discovered in Australia in an area described by researchers as a “Jurassic Park”. Palaeontologists from the University of Queensland and James Cook University studied tracks preserved in approximately 140-million-year-old rocks in the Kimberley region […]
