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Fossilized skin impressions uncovered in central Germany are now regarded as the oldest known evidence of reptile skin. Dating backroughly 298 to 299 million years, the find preserves intricate scale ...

Paleontologists have recently discovered a previously unknown species of Spinosaurus deep in the Sahara Desert, revealing a dinosaur with a remarkable skull crest unlike anything observed before in ...

In a recent study, University of Alaska Fairbanks paleontologist Matthew Wooller and his colleagues radiocarbon-dated what they thought were pieces of two mammoth vertebrae, only to get a whale of a ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

A three-toed footprint appeared in the rock, slightly longer than my hiking boot. The outlines weren’t crisp, but the impression was deep enough to collect sand grains and pebbles. This impression is ...

A Mississippi woman discovered a rare, fossilized jawbone of an ancient sea cow known as a dugong. The fossil, estimated to be between 28 and 30 million years old, was found along the Chickasawhay ...