The first fossil thrips in Africa: this tiny insect pest met its end in a volcanic lake 90 million years ago
Thrips are tiny insects—their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they ...
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Curious Kids: what was biggest dinosaur that ever lived
Zavier, 14, Tauranga, New Zealand. Great question Zavier, and one that palaeontologists (scientists who study fossil animals ...
Dinosaur tracks, made 140 million years ago, have been found for the first time in South Africa’s Western Cape
Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, according to a study published in Nature. The remains were first discovered ...
Oldest cerapodan ornithischian dinosaur discovered in Morocco
A team of paleontologists from the Natural History Museum in the U.K., the University of Birmingham, also in the U.K., and Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, in Morocco, has unearthed the oldest ...
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Discovery of Organic Molecules in 66-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Bones Shakes Up Paleontology
Paleontologists have long assumed that fossilization destroys all organic molecules in ancient remains. However, a ...