Spiders are not well represented in the fossil record. Their soft external skeletons don’t typically preserve well — except at a few exceptional sites around the world. There is one remarkable spot in ...
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The fossils that changed what we know about dinosaurs
The Yixian Formation in northeastern China has produced some of the most extraordinary dinosaur fossils ever discovered. Many are preserved with feathers, transforming our understanding of dinosaur ...
The three fossil specimens (from left to right), Avisaurus darwini, Avisaurus sp., and Magnusavis ekalakaensis, all of which are represented by a tarsometatarsus. They are all shown to scale with one ...
Advanced CT imaging of rare Devonian lungfish fossils in Australia and China is revealing unexpected anatomical details.
Before leaving on a fossil-hunting trip for a summer 2021 field paleontology class, a Montana State University junior made an ...
Scientists believe they’ve deduced why prehistoric Ediacara Biota fossils have remained preserved for millions of years. The fossils of these soft-bodied creatures from before the Cambrian Explosion ...
A recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society reveals the discovery of the most distant and most pristine fossil galaxy ever found, KiDS J0842+0059, located about 3 ...
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