Scientists called Campeche an archaeological “blank spot” in the Maya Lowlands, an area spanning what is now Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and southeastern Mexico, and which the Maya ...

What do the ginkgo (a tree), the nautilus (a mollusc) and the coelacanth (a fish) all have in common? They don't look alike, and they aren't biologically related, but part of their evolutionary ...

A fossil of the world's oldest tadpole, which coexisted with dinosaurs in the Middle Jurassic about 165 million years ago, is pictured next to a 3D-printed representation of the tadpole and of a ...

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One in a billion bones becomes a fossil — even fewer turn into opal ... Greg's father Bob packed the opalised bones into a duffel bag, drove to Sydney, and asked to speak to the palaeontologist ...

A sprawling Maya city with palaces and pyramids was discovered in a dense Mexican jungle by a doctoral student who unknowingly drove past the site years ago on a visit to Mexico. Tulane University ...

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The oldest known tadpole fossil, which belongs to this species, was found in the Patagonia region of Argentina. Gabriel Lío While in search of dinosaur fossils, a team of Argentine and Chinese ...

Scientists have discovered the fossil remains of the world's oldest tadpole. It was found in the South American country of Argentina and dates back around 160 million years ago, to the Jurassic ...

Its memory, however, would be immortalized in the most glorious of ways: 450 million years later, scientists have uncovered its fossil, and they were shocked to see that it glitters like gold.

All that glitters is not gold. But in the world of fossil discovery, a golden glitter is plenty of cause for celebration − even if it's not real. That was the case for Luke Parry, a paleobiology ...