The discovery comes from a fossil of an ancient firefly species that was initially discovered in 2016, trapped in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber from northern Myanmar. The beetle is only the ...

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 ...

Gondwanax paraisensis fossil found in southern Brazil Fossil dates back to Triassic period, 237 million years ago Discovery could shed light on dinosaur evolutionary success SAO JOAO DO POLESINE ...

It was the 1920s, and scientists were searching far and wide for fossils of human ancestors. The question of where humans evolved was open, and while Charles Darwin had claimed it might be Africa ...

The 550-million-year-old Quaestio simpsonorum is the first fossil to show a definitive left-right asymmetry, an important sign of evolutionary development in the history of animals. In 1947 ...

Dinosaur fossils have been discovered in Hong Kong for the first time, on a remote island in the financial center’s countryside. The fossils were found on Port Island, an uninhabitable expanse ...

HONG KONG, Oct 25 (Reuters) - The first dinosaur fossils found in Hong Kong, likely from a large dinosaur, were put on display on Friday after they were found on a small, uninhabited outlying ...

Nov. 8, 2024 — Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered 'hominin' group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day humans passed on some of their genes via multiple ...

The discovery may push back the emergence of the reptiles that once ruled the Earth, and clarify how dinosaurs like the Triceratops and Stegosaurus emerged. By Asher Elbein A dog-size reptile ...