These features were located near fossilized microbial mats (layered sheets of fossilized microorganisms).
|
|
The largest collection of coprolite (which is fossilized dung) belongs to George Frandsen, who owns 1,277 (hopefully sterilized) pieces of fossilized feces.
|
|
" Microbes, even fossilized microbes, would be "an astonishing discovery.
|
|
Wait till you see the fossilized feathers — believe it!
|
|
Trouble is, these tracks could not be connected to a specific organism, leaving the features ambiguous in nature; it's exceptionally rare to find a fossilized creature resting next to its fossilized trail marks.
|
|
The site also contained traces of fossilized plants and invertebrates.
|
|
The fossilized trackways made by an unknown, ancient sea creature.
|
|
Bite marks on the fossilized meal of an ancient T.rex.
|
|
Bite marks on fossilized bones indicated carnivores lived there, too.
|
|
"There are only about 10 fossilized mushrooms known," Heads said.
|
|
Snapshot: Above, fossilized fish — 259, to be exact — swimming together.
|
|
Fossilized A group of scientists announced in a paper this week they had found some fossilized bacteria on the northeastern edge of Hudson Bay in Quebec which could be more than four billion years old.
|
|
Dark crustacean shell fragment embedded in coprolite, or fossilized dinosaur poop.
|
|
The fossilized remains of the animals were recovered in northeastern China.
|
|
Did you know fossilized dinosaur bones can actually turn into opals?
|
|
Ever wonder how Lucy, our famed and fossilized human ancestor, died?
|
|
I pictured going down there and getting fossilized in the limestone.
|
|
Is Phobos an abandoned alien spacecraft, or a fossilized Cadbury egg?
|
|
A mystery still remains, however: How did the spiders become fossilized?
|
|
The fossilized meteorite was discovered in a limestone quarry in Sweden.
|
|
The rattlesnake fang found in the coprolite, or fossilized poop, sample.
|
|
Researchers discovered her fossilized remains outside Faith, South Dakota, in 21.
|
|
The next year she and her team excavated the fossilized remains.
|
|
Nothing, however, has been found in fossilized ecosystems such as coral reefs.
|
|
A video showing the concealed parasitoid wasp inside a fossilized fly pupae.
|
|
He cracked it open and found inside part of a fossilized crocodile.
|
|
But more importantly I feel like this whole thing is fossilized, ossified.
|
|
This resulted in the identification of pheomelanin in the fossilized mouse fur.
|
|
I learned how to tile and chiseled fossilized gunk from the floors.
|
|
Some of the fossils were immediately identifiable as coprolites, or fossilized poop.
|
|
And luckily enough, scientists also discovered fossilized footprints, or trackways, to match.
|
|
That's most interesting about their fossilized remains is their complexity and variety.
|
|
He made the castle out of fossilized coral, hence the attraction's title.
|
|
Over time, that fossilized brain separated from the rest of the body.
|
|
Most guts in the fossilized record are dark and appear three-dimensional.
|
|
Previously, the oldest known fossilized green alga was 800 million years old.
|
|
Only fossilized seeds had told the story of the family's evolutionary history.
|
|
Digging for fossilized dino poop: CU Boulder associate professor Karen Chin at work.
|
|
This silk-wrapped tick was entombed by sap, which eventually fossilized as amber.
|
|
These aren't fossilized imprints of the microbes, but the stuff they left behind.
|
|
A small sampling of the 1,510 fossilized fly pupae used in the study.
|
|
The two-foot-long skeleton was the first fossilized newborn of its species.
|
|
For centuries, large fossilized teeth were discovered embedded in land rocks in Malta.
|
|
And lodged inside the fossilized paddlefish's gills were more of the glass spherules.
|
|
Later, in mid-April, a fossilized forearm from an extinct camel was unearthed.
|
|
MUNCHIES: Could fossilized DNA ever be used to bring back an extinct animal?
|
|
Fossilized remains found in Morocco might belong to our 22,214-year-old ancestors.
|
|
The rocks in each layer held fossilized shells of microscopic plankton called foraminifera.
|
|
No arctic flower seed fossilized under centuries of frost, waiting to be reborn.
|
|
There was also evidence of a previously unknown species of fossilized baleen whale.
|
|
For years, Twitter users have sought out ways to destroy those fossilized tweets.
|
|
To him, the book is fossilized, but aloud, it can have another life.
|
|
You don't expect an institute of folk art to have fossilized dinosaur footprints.
|
|
Its fossilized footprints showed a limp, which was how paleontologists diagnosed the injury.
|
|
A fossilized Neanderthal footprint found at the Le Rozel site in Normandy, France.
|
|
Thus far, fossilized Denisovan remains have only been found in Siberia and Tibet.
|
|
When the tide is turning out, comb the shore for fossilized shark teeth.
|
|
Finding the world's oldest fossilized animal is a kind of Holy Grail for paleontologists.
|
|
That means scrubbing down those keys and wiping the fossilized fingerprints off your screen.
|
|
"They're really cute," Erickson said of the little dinosaurs "stuffed in" their fossilized eggs.
|
|
Photo: AP/Neanderthal MuseumFrom fossilized evidence, we know that Neanderthals didn't look like us.
|
|
Archeologists uncovered the fossilized insects from Egypt's ancient Tel-el-Amarna site in 1999.
|
|
And they realized there was something unusual inside the adult: a tiny, fossilized embryo.
|
|
Theoretically, there should also be fossilized evidence of animals killed by the asteroid's effects.
|
|
A fossilized ammonite, a sea creature that went extinct about 66 million years ago.
|
|
They tested fossilized eggshells from 14 different dinosaurs and also ancient and modern birds.
|
|
Amber - fossilized tree sap - has preserved numerous small organisms including insects, lizards and frogs.
|
|
Today, the iconic ad campaign feels fossilized, obsessed with a bygone vision of masculinity.
|
|
In experiments, Lister and his colleagues analyzed stable isotope ratios from the fossilized rhino teeth.
|
|
Makes sense, but paleontologists will have to find actual fossilized evidence to prove this conjecture.
|
|
An X-ray image shows a concealed parasitic wasp inside mineralized, or fossilized, fly pupae.
|
|
The researchers say that encapsulation in silica is roughly comparable to that of fossilized bones.
|
|
That's the new reality of the majestic T-Rex, reduced by time to fossilized remains.
|
|
Much of what we know about these giant sharks comes from fossilized teeth like these.
|
|
This discovery could assist NASA scientists in their search for similar fossilized lifeforms on Mars.
|
|
There are a few reasons no one has ever discovered a fossilized dinosaur brain before.
|
|
These insights capture a broader evolutionary picture through the aperture of C. kunmingensis's fossilized nerves.
|
|
They found that the sediment collected from the skull site contained fossilized deep sea diatoms.
|
|
But many chicken bones go to landfills, where they become mummified as much as fossilized.
|
|
He visits Paisley Cave in Oregon, with its fossilized human feces from 14,000 years ago.
|
|
But the rarity of fossilized footprints, and where they were found, tells an interesting story.
|
|
"It is very difficult to demonstrate a fossilized predator-prey relationship," said Dr. Billon-Bruyat.
|
|
Microscopic images of coprolites (fossilized poop), including those from hyenas, wolves, and some unindentified species.
|
|
Still, the remains of fish inside Cairo's fossilized forest suggest that it did sometimes flood.
|
|
The fossilized footprints were discovered by a team of scientists studying trackways and burrows in China.
|
|
"Because baleen is so rarely fossilized, its presence can rarely be seen directly," Evans told Gizmodo.
|
|
In addition to the human finger, the researchers found fossilized traces of hippos and freshwater snails.
|
|
Tourists tried and failed to light fossilized wood on fire, which also happens to be illegal.
|
|
Palaeontologists have found a tiny fossilized baby snake, the first of its kind to be discovered.
|
|
The team also collected more than 6,000 fossilized leaves and analyzed more than 37,000 pollen grains.
|
|
"Diatomaceous earth is made from the fossilized remains of tiny aquatic organisms called diatoms," Brust says.
|
|
Then she revealed herself to be a pro-choice feminist, scandalizing the fossilized pageant committee members.
|
|
The nests contained small chambers filled with fossilized fungus and really old pellets of fungus food.
|
|
Collins is an archeologist who started out studying the proteins of fossilized shellfish, in the eighties.
|
|
Numerous animals and plants have been found beautifully preserved inside amber, which is fossilized tree resin.
|
|
Zero stopped to consider a deflated soccer ball, so old it looked fossilized, then kept moving.
|
|
For paleontologists who study coprolites, a fancy word for fossilized poop, the scene probably hits home.
|
|
And researchers have been trying to find fossilized evidence of the common ancestor of most animals.
|
|
In it appeared to be the remains of fossilized fish — 259, to be exact — swimming together.
|
|
No other fossilized fruit from the nightshade family had ever been found before, Dr. Wilf said.
|
|
Other scientists last year described 3.7 billion-year-old fossilized microbial mats, called stromatolites, from Greenland.
|
|
With odd protrusions of rubber or leather, they resemble fossilized animal remains strapped to the body.
|
|
The fossilized skeletons were found in mysterious death pits in Xinjiang in the far west of China.
|
|
Indeed, it's difficult to infer physical capacities, movement styles, and behavior from fossilized etchings carved onto rock.
|
|
The discovery of an unusual fossilized skull in eastern Utah is shedding new light on Earth's history.
|
|
Harvey's discovery of the loriciferan fossil came as a complete surprise while he was studying fossilized crustaceans.
|
|
Some of Earth's first burrowing creatures emerged during this time, as evidenced by the fossilized burrows themselves.
|
|
Comparisons of a modern porpoise sample of blubber (left and center) and the fossilized ichthyosaur blubber (right).
|
|
Fossilized imprints suggested dinosaurs had feathers during the cretaceous period, between 145 to 65 million years ago.
|
|
It turned out to be part of a 15-inch fossilized fetus, curled up atop the eggs.
|
|
The fossilized jaws reached about 0.4 inches in length — the largest jaws recorded in ancient marine worms.
|
|
But scientists know that tetrapods lived as long as 390 million years ago due to fossilized footprints.
|
|
He's laid out like Lenin in a glass sarcophagus, but fossilized and missing most of his bones.
|
|
For one thing, the fossilized skull bones were spongy instead of smooth, a possible sign of youth.
|
|
To be certain about what Matheronodon actually ate, paleontologists will need more conclusive evidence: fossilized dinosaur poop.
|
|
The fossilized specimens exhibited similar feather arrangements, pigmentation (yes, the amber fossils even revealed color!), and microstructure.
|
|
Materpiscis attenboroughi was a fossilized fish found in Western Australia that was preserved with an unborn embryo.
|
|
Its fossilized remains were discovered in 1980 at an important site in western Kenya called Meswa Bridge.
|
|
Besides, how else are you going to obtain an awesome 3D visualization of your fossilized lizard baby?
|
|
In the frigid expanse of northern Greenland, paleontologists unearthed the fossilized remains of some behemoth, wormlike creature.
|
|
Fossilized ring-shaped cakes resembling doughnuts have been unearthed in Native American settlements dating back 8,000 years.
|
|
Then, after thousands of years the skin and fur disintegrated, leaving behind only the fossilized claw bones.
|
|
Most of the methods used to look at fossilized shit, more commonly called coprolites, are fairly outdated.
|
|
The team analyzed its sample, then did a literature review of all the papers on fossilized mushrooms.
|
|
An earlier version of this article misstated a scientist's role in the study of a fossilized mouse.
|
|
Then, he extracted fossilized insect bits from black sludge using a probe tipped with human nose hair.
|
|
Paleontologists sometimes find preserved prey within a predator's stomach or throat, or inside fossilized feces, called coprolites.
|
|
Fossilized DNA sequenced from those bones, recovered in Siberia, has allowed us to learn more about them.
|
|
Dr. Erickson used teeth from rare fossil embryos found in fossilized eggs that were about to hatch.
|
|
Late last month, an Ohio University entomologist claimed that there are fossilized and living insects on Mars.
|
|
A few years ago, the Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo received an unusual fossilized bone fragment from Siberia.
|
|
In the 1950s, the Finnish biologist Björn Kurtén noticed something unusual in the fossilized horses he was studying.
|
|
Finally, in 2014, he returned to the tantalizing mystery of the larger fossilized creature inside the adult Dinocephalosaurus.
|
|
The fossilized remains of Akainacephalus johnsoni were discovered in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in south-central Utah.
|
|
Sixteen mammal species were discovered, with skulls and other bones fossilized after being buried in rivers and floodplains.
|
|
Examples of fossilized soft tissues are extremely rare because these organs deteriorate much faster than sturdier skeletal structures.
|
|
Previously, researchers believed any damage or fractures within her bones simply happened over time as she became fossilized.
|
|
The fossilized remains of Eoconfuciusornis, a beaked bird with no teeth, still contains traces of its original color.
|
|
Although ancient camels were once native to Southern California, their fossilized remains are rarely found around this area.
|
|
Not a rock whirling through the uncaring void but the fossilized wreck of a magnificent, light-powered starship?
|
|
It is about inherited, ready-made formulations, fossilized metaphors—most notably those of Irish-Catholicism and anti-Semitism.
|
|
She spotted fossilized corals, proof that what is now the dry ground of Lignumvitae Key was once underwater.
|
|
Because the soft tissue had also fossilized, he said, even the animal's stomach contents might still be present.
|
|
He later found a suitcase-size piece of fossilized skin from a ceratopsian attached to the hip bone.
|
|
Trilobites Paleontologists have uncovered what they believe to be the first ever fossilized brain tissue from a dinosaur.
|
|
Fossilized poop samples may sound off-putting, but they allow scientists to reconstruct the diets of ancient peoples.
|
|
So quickly that no piece of fossilized brain had ever been discovered from a vertebrate living on land.
|
|
But perhaps even more remarkable is that this piece of brain was even fossilized in the first place.
|
|
Liu says there's some evidence of fossilized cortical (grey matter) tissue as well, but they're not as confident.
|
|
Wrapped in a silk handkerchief was a dinner roll, shrunken from its original size and fossilized by time.
|
|
The method that led to the findings will help search for other fossilized creatures colored with red hues.
|
|
Traditionally, these markings were interpreted as so-called "gut traces," or the fossilized remains of the digestive system.
|
|
Snapshot: Above, fossilized fish — 259, to be exact — that were discovered by a biologist on vacation in Japan.
|
|
In the library, the mantelpiece is made from "dent marble," a fossilized limestone popular during the Victorian era.
|
|
Charlie Magovern, a fossil dealer, came into possession of the rocks and unexpectedly discovered the fossilized fetus bones.
|
|
Thus far, fossilized Denisovan remains have only been found in the Denisova cave in Russia and in Tibet.
|
|
And most of the time, giant sloth teeth are found completely fossilized, which replaces the tissue with minerals.
|
|
The tooth revealed that it contained tissue through cathodoluminescence microscopy, which can show how much something has fossilized.
|
|
Image: Dominique CliquetScientists in France have discovered hundreds of fossilized footprints belonging to a single group of Neanderthals.
|
|
This was the first time that&aposs ever been done using any fossilized material other than human bones.
|
|
But though there are more than 2,500 fossilized species of nautilus, today only a handful of species exist.
|
|
The scientists even spotted at least one clump of what appears to be a coprolite, or fossilized feces.
|
|
But as luck would have it, the expectant mother was fossilized in the seabed—along with her developing embryo.
|
|
In 1996 NASA scientists announced they had found evidence for fossilized microbial life embedded in a meteorite from Mars.
|
|
These trilobite-like arthropods lived in huge numbers, leaving an abundance of fossilized traces in England, Scandinavia, and Russia.
|
|
A 1939 painting by Ernst of poplar trees at Galerie Thomas (Booth 308) makes foliage look like fossilized megaliths.
|
|
The original fossilized bones of this T. rex arrived at the museum Tuesday and will be reassembled for display.
|
|
The sample also contained the only fossilized examples of a certain parasite that still infects humans and animals today.
|
|
Researchers said a 1.8-million-year-old fossilized jaw bears the scratches of a person who was right-handed.
|
|
Researchers digging in British Columbia's Burgess Shale have uncovered the fossilized remains of a 500 million-year-old lobopodian.
|
|
Remarkably, the fossilized bones of these creatures, which glisten in hues of blue and green, are preserved in opal.
|
|
In October 2017, researchers Hannah Shamloo and Christy Till analyzed minerals in fossilized ash from the most recent eruption.
|
|
As rock was slowly chipped away, a fossilized dinosaur that Mitchell described as "very wide" and "very fat" emerged.
|
|
When the researchers analyzed the fossilized fungus gardens, they found that the fungus species only grows when it's cultivated.
|
|
As time went on they became buried in the sediment, which forever fossilized their game of "follow-the-leader."
|
|
The fossilized eggs found at the nesting ground look more like deflated balloons than eggs cracked for an omelet.
|
|
Dineobellator is no exception, with the presence of quill knobs, or bumps, left on fossilized bone, suggesting the same.
|
|
They combine the scans into a 3D image, showing the structure of the brain imprinted on the fossilized bone.
|
|
Fossilized minerals in bone turn to stone, but the horse was not old enough for that to have happened.
|
|
In 2013, the fossilized embryo was finally returned and put on display in the Henan Geological Museum in Zhengzhou.
|
|
Close examination of the Utah coprolites revealed thick bits and pieces of fossilized shell, in addition to the rotten wood.
|
|
To find fossilized traces of this forgotten life, whether it be in Antarctica or elsewhere, scientists need to find rocks.
|
|
In yet another act of due diligence, the researchers correlated the candidate walking styles against fossilized footprints made by Orobates.
|
|
Scientists say the fossilized remains of a brittle star that lived 435 million years ago belong to a new species.
|
|
But the tiny skeleton inside the adult reptile is fossilized in the canonical fetal position — curled up and facing forward.
|
|
Scientists have long known that the T. rex could eat bones, as shown by fragments found in fossilized dinosaur dung.
|
|
The oldest fossilized coral was dated to 302,000 years ago, so the landslide couldn't have happened any earlier than that.
|
|
Importantly, the fossilized remains of Murusraptor contained an unusually intact braincase and distinctive features not previously seen in other megaraptors.
|
|
We'll carry this legacy of mass destruction weapons to our graves and, if we're so lucky, to our fossilized remains.
|
|
At the bottom of the world atop the forbidding Transantarctic Mountains sit the fossilized remains of microscopic, ocean-dwelling diatoms.
|
|
New research published today in Nature describes two fossilized skull fragments found in Apidima Cave in Southern Greece in 1978.
|
|
The fossilized bones had almost the same measurements as the bones from the flightless Aldabran birds, according to the paper.
|
|
Amber is fossilized tree resin, and occasionally it preserves bits of plant and animal matter, like insects and bird feathers.
|
|
"It is wonderful that we found fossilized wood and tree leaves right around, and even under, the skull," said Duran.
|
|
Over the past 25 years, Dr. Schmitz and his colleagues collected more than 100 fossilized meteorites from the Swedish quarry.
|
|
A newly identified and exquisitely preserved flower found entombed in amber – fossilized tree sap – may have packed quite a punch.
|
|
A tiny fraction managed to die under fortuitous circumstances that allowed their tissue and bones to be fossilized in rock.
|
|
Paleontologists have uncovered more than 200 fossilized eggs belonging to the flying reptiles that soared during the age of dinosaurs.
|
|
Before this finding, paleontologists had not uncovered a fossilized baby snake even in the rock fossil record, said Dr. Caldwell.
|
|
Only the bottom half of the baby snake's sinuous body was preserved in the amber, which is fossilized tree resin.
|
|
The fossilized burrows were found beneath the impressions of other fossils in the lowest layer of Nilpena's Ediacaran Period deposits.
|
|
The photographs feature real subjects — mucous, cuticles, newspaper clippings — often captured at microscopic levels to create a fossilized, distorted effect.
|
|
Within the Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star Cave, the researchers discovered more than 2500,2000 fossilized remains from 21891 individuals.
|
|
One of the fossilized ants had specialized pockets on its head, called crypts, that are also seen on modern ants.
|
|
But Chief Makinaw, a Cree from Alberta, says the government's figures for outstanding claims are understated and its processes fossilized.
|
|
The fragments of a fossilized skull belonging to a previously unknown species of tyrannosaur were found in southern Alberta, Canada.
|
|
It was elongated and almost chinless, and the fossilized bones found alongside it were extra thick and fit together oddly.
|
|
But paleontologists in the Patagonia region in Argentina have discovered 52 million-year-old fossilized tomatillos, which are also nightshades.
|
|
Across the field, the Falcons watched from their sideline as if fossilized in amber, too exhausted and dumbstruck to move.
|
|
The researchers established this age by counting the layers within the fossilized dental structures, a process akin to counting tree rings.
|
|
A family working on the backyard of their Lehi home, for example, recently unearthed the fossilized remains of an ancient horse.
|
|
Erickson also anticipates that the incubation periods of other fossilized embryos, from dinosaurs to mammals, could be analyzed the same way.
|
|
Gázquez-Sánchez said this method of analyzing "fossilized water" could reveal a lot about worldwide climates ranging back millions of years.
|
|
The meteorite, discovered fossilized in a limestone bed in Sweden, has a different composition to all of the known meteorite types.
|
|
Sanchez hopes to build on this research by conducting synchrotron analysis of other rare fossilized tetrapods from this period in time.
|
|
These fossilized creatures, found in ancient marine rocks, provide a small snapshot of what our planet was like in the past.
|
|
He was herding sheep in the northern Australian town of Winton when he discovered what he thought were fossilized limb bones.
|
|
A hoard of fossilized pterosaur eggs discovered in China is helping scientists gain a rare insight into the extinct flying reptiles.
|
|
Using advanced spectroscopic techniques, Lindgren's team examined the Fur Formation specimens, and found that the fossilized flies also had calcite lenses.
|
|
These croc relatives proliferated all over the bygone Gondwanan landmass, scattering their fossilized bones across South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia.
|
|
After stumbling across the remains of this Cretaceous fungus in Brazil, researchers say it's the oldest fossilized mushroom in the world.
|
|
But now, these results show, it's possible that organic material — perhaps even soft tissue — might actually reside inside these fossilized bones.
|
|
The researchers determined the fossilized snake was either an embryo or a newborn based on the development of its spinal cord.
|
|
But researchers have discovered one of the most complete elpistostegalian fossils yet: a 5-foot-long fossilized fish in Miguasha, Quebec.
|
|
Then, they turned to fossilized burrows, dated to the Ediacaran Period some 555 million years ago, found in Nilpena, South Australia.
|
|
A 2017-million-year-old fossilized penguin found in New Zealand stands 5 feet 7 inches and has a long bill.
|
|
The team had also collected more than 20 fossilized teeth at the site from herbivores like antelope, elephants and ancient horses.
|
|
Coprolites, fossilized feces, showed the presence of partly digested bones, indicating that it had the stomach juices to cope with them.
|
|
Judging by its relatives, and by fossilized footprints of a group of the dinosaurs together, T. rex was a social animal.
|
|
The fossilized skeleton of a 150 million-year-old carnivorous theropod dinosaur was sold by French auction house Aguttes for €2,019,680.
|
|
Ancient as the fossilized algae are, they seem to have many of the characteristics also seen in much later green seaweeds.
|
|
These appendages clearly overlap and link individuals in the fossilized chains, and perhaps allowed tactile or pheromone signals to be exchanged.
|
|
The results revealed a substance called chitin in the cell walls of the fossilized organisms, a telltale sign of fungal biology.
|
|
The rim of the crater could be rich with carbonates, which can help preserve signs of ancient life in fossilized form.
|
|
We asked a pet doctor how he'd treat the fossilized injuries found to have affected some of prehistory's most fearsome reptiles.
|
|
For the first time, clues have emerged about Baby Louie, a 90-million-year-old fossilized dinosaur embryo found in China.
|
|
The international research team found the earliest evidence for multicellular organisms there, and now, they have found fossilized tracks signifying mobility.
|
|
One day her molar fell out, and fossilized over many millenniums, keeping it safe from the elements and the tooth fairy.
|
|
Fifty percent of the fossilized fish were found with tektites in their gills, as if the fish had inhaled the material.
|
|
Excavating internet-fossilized synth sounds evocative of RollerCoaster Tycoon era video games, the track's voiceover meditates on artificial superintelligence and lattes.
|
|
The earliest known life forms on Earth are fossilized cyanobacteria, which are approximately 3.8 billion years old, according to a 2017 study .
|
|
It's now the first example of fossilized ichthyosaur blubber in the scientific literature, pointing to ichthyosaurs as warm-blooded, or endothermic, organisms.
|
|
The fossilized corpse was unearthed at a construction site in the city of Ganzhou when workers blasted away surrounding rock with TNT.
|
|
"The discovery of this fossilized finger bone is a dream come true," said Petraglia at a press conference held this past Thursday.
|
|
Scientists at the time assumed the fossilized remains — along with fragments of their stone tools — relatively new, maybe only 0003,2000 years old.
|
|
"These are the smallest dinosaur teeth I've ever worked with," said Erickson, who has worked on a variety of fossilized dental records.
|
|
The latest fossil find, an intriguing fossilized femur, was recently found in Taurida Cave on the northern coast of the Black Sea.
|
|
Image: Yi LiuThis remarkable fossil, along with a second fossilized snake specimen, were discovered at the Angbamo site in Myanmar's Kachin Province.
|
|
The fossilized remnants of a shastasaurid species, Shonisaurus sikanniensis, is currently kept at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta, Canada.
|
|
Some landfills, in low ground in tectonically subsiding areas, will simply be buried by more strata, to be fossilized as palaeontological middens.
|
|
After analyzing the fossilized ear with a CT scanner, the researchers compared it to those of two hippos and 23 known cetaceans.
|
|
It's a fossilized example of the comic book industry's archaic view of women, a view that was too often applied to Danvers.
|
|
Then they matched those up with the vocal organs found in fossilized dinosaurs for a paper coming out next month in Evolution.
|
|
Related: How to Make an Augmented Reality Book "World's First" Bacteria-Grown Book Combines Science and Culture Fossilized Books Make Beautiful Sculptures
|
|
Fossilized dinosaur footprints are fairly common in the paleontological record, but a mere 1 percent of these tracks exhibit evidence of skin.
|
|
The duo also found fossilized evidence of worm tunnels, some only a millimeter in size and others the width of a finger.
|
|
Following millions of years of sediment buildup and compression, the meteorites fossilized, much like the trilobites and shellfish that shared the seafloor.
|
|
Eventually, miners in a Swedish quarry came across the fossilized meteorites among limestone that was destined to be made into floor panels.
|
|
Diluvicursor's remains were found amongst a jumbled collection of large fossilized tree trunks also apparently swept down the river during a flood.
|
|
Years of fossilized ideology on the right created this choice, and some conservatives admit it, though it has not made them happy.
|
|
Paleontologists know this from the dinosaur's fossilized poop; they've discovered T. rex feces containing tiny chunks of bone eroded by stomach acid.
|
|
The largest T. rex ever found only lived to around 29 years old, which scientists determined through lines in its fossilized bones.
|
|
They were the fossilized shells of ammonoids, a great race of cephalopods (distantly related to the nautilus) that once roamed the seas.
|
|
In his brilliant, masterfully crafted sculptures of airships, he incorporates elements that run the gamut from firm to fossilized, found to handmade.
|
|
Trilobites A discovery in a fossilized mouse could help scientists work out the true colors of dinosaurs and other creatures from prehistory.
|
|
Over the course of a week they took images of more than 1,500 fossilized fly pupae and found 55 with parasitoid wasps.
|
|
It may arrive cold alongside aachar and chiura, rice grains pounded flat and then fried into gossamer flakes that suggest fossilized tears.
|
|
She and her colleagues ran the fossilized skull and antlers of M. giganteus through a scanner to create a three-dimensional model.
|
|
A 90-million-year-old fossilized dinosaur embryo, it was found among a clutch of eggs in Henan Province, in central China.
|
|
Amber is fossilized tree sap, and it acts as a kind of resin that can preserve organic matter that would otherwise be lost.
|
|
The discovery included an almost complete cranium and lower jaw, which in its fossilized form required virtual reconstruction using CT technology in Beijing.
|
|
Prior to this discovery, scientists found traces of spider webs containing insects, and even a fossilized scene of a spider attacking a wasp.
|
|
But 150 million years ago, humongous, long-necked dinosaurs called sauropods roamed there—and scientists just identified one of their colossal, fossilized feet.
|
|
Dating back some 3.7 billion years, the suspected soil—exposed underneath a retreating ice cap—could potentially contain fossilized traces of primordial life.
|
|
"I think it will take humans on the planet breaking open a lot of rocks" to find fossilized evidence of life, she said.
|
|
Archaeologists have unearthed 3153,000-year-old fossilized bones of early humans — the oldest remains of Homo sapiens yet discovered, two new studies report.
|
|
Fossil hunter Jamie Hiscocks first found the fossilized brain in 2004 while digging near Bexhill, a seaside town in England's rural Sussex County.
|
|
Fossilized dung, called coprolites, offers insight into the diet of extinct creatures that cannot be gleaned by merely studying teeth, jaws and skeletons.
|
|
Taken together, these observations suggest the hematite rock most likely formed as the bacteria gobbled-up iron for energy, and later became fossilized.
|
|
Dany wears her wedding dress while his pyre burns, tosses her supposedly fossilized dragon eggs in there, then walks into the fire herself.
|
|
Illustration: Julius T. CsotonyiA pair of fossilized teeth confirms the presence of hyenas north of the Arctic circle during the last Ice Age.
|
|
Shark's skeletons are made from cartilage, which doesn't last long after death, so what we know of megalodons comes mostly from fossilized teeth.
|
|
During that time, Habeck looked at fossilized remains with paleontologists, carved thousands of individual scales, then laboriously molded, casted, and painted the head.
|
|
Even so, it's likely that, as often happens when we get older, he fossilized into someone his younger self would scarcely have recognized.
|
|
Up close, you see a fossilized patchwork of corrugated metal, wood clapboards and other types of siding punctuated by blind, mullion-gridded windows.
|
|
But because paleontologists have never found fossilized vocal organs from any of those dinosaurs, we don't really know what their world sounded like.
|
|
Indeed, Norell was part of the team that discovered the first fossilized remains of a feathered tyrannosaur (Dilong paradoxus) in China in 2004.
|
|
The discovery in itself is quite remarkable, given that ancient food sources such as bacteria and algae don't leave easily identifiable fossilized remains.
|
|
A discovery of more than 200 fossilized eggs from Hamipterus tianshanensis in China's Gobi Desert is the largest pterosaur egg collection ever found.
|
|
The recent excavation of a cave site along Portugal's coast revealed a wealth of fossilized remains of food, including fish, birds and mammals.
|
|
The study's authors hope medical technology, such as 3D X-Ray scanners, will make it easier for other scientists to investigate fossilized tumors.
|
|
He hoped that the fossilized tree resin, after aging for so long, might approach a hypothetical form of matter known as ideal glass.
|
|
Tantalizing traces of early animals are etched in ancient sandstone near Nilpena, South Australia, in the form of tiny fossilized burrows called Helminthoidichnites.
|
|
Towers of e-waste stand like statues, and a series of fossilized phones greet visitors like rare finds from a futuristic archaeological dig.
|
|
These places and things are not fossilized relics of a bygone era, but allow for a way of life that is uniquely Iranian.
|
|
He recognized the find almost immediately: These were the remains of a long-extinct Stegomastodon, and Jude had tripped over its fossilized tusk.
|
|
The location of its fossilized remains suggests these majestic herbivores browsed ancient shorelines, expanding our knowledge of this wildly successful group of dinosaurs.
|
|
A new clue supporting that idea is a fossilized wing bone belonging to a newly discovered prehistoric bird found in the Canadian Arctic.
|
|
He completely rejects scientific evidence that the Earth is 4.5 billion years-old and that fossilized dinosaur bones date back roughly 65 million years.
|
|
The fossilized remains of Mansourasaurus shahinae, found in Egypt's Western Desert, suggests dinosaurs living in Africa and Europe weren't as isolated as previously thought.
|
|
On the outside, the Ambos Mundos looked like a fossilized pink layer cake, and on the inside, it looked like a dried-up lime.
|
|
Image: Neil DavieThis region of southern England is known for producing dinosaur fossils, including the first example of fossilized brain tissue found in 2016.
|
|
Led by Julia Clarke, a paleontologist based at the UT Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences, the paper describes the oldest fossilized syrinx ever found.
|
|
Instead, other amber specimens found within the same geological deposits were previously dated directly and indirectly, including traces of volcanic material and fossilized insects.
|
|
But that theory was based on fossilized embryos found in China that had poorly developed wings, according to a press release about the research.
|
|
Now NASA says it has found fossilized 'extraterrestrial nucleobases' - or basic nitrogen-carrying biological molecules - in two enticing meteorites (Murchison and Lonewolf Nanataks 94102).
|
|
Snakes have been found preserved in amber before, but this is the first time paleontologists have discovered a baby snake fossilized in this way.
|
|
The researchers were able to extract prehistoric genes from bones that were not yet fossilized by differentiating between bacteria and human DNA, he said.
|
|
Long before those fossilized creatures were alive about 95 million years ago, their ancestors migrated during the mid-Cretaceous Period as dinosaurs spread worldwide.
|
|
Now the Manchester researchers plan to apply what they've learned about those trace metal concentrations to fossilized specimens like those ancient birds, or dinosaurs.
|
|
Some cling to leaves, others curl up around sticks, frozen in their tiny death postures like the now-fossilized humans who couldn't escape Pompeii.
|
|
"And there's several lines of evidence," Prather, a lead author on UN climate reports, added, citing the carbon dioxide evidence in fossilized marine life.
|
|
Instead, they found dozens of glass beads inside of fossilized clams, most of them inside fossils of Mercenaria campechiensis, also known as southern quahogs.
|
|
The UT-Austin researchers said they determined Lucy likely plunged to her death after studying a specific set of fractures in the fossilized bones.
|
|
But Eric Trinkhaus, an anthropology professor at Washington University in St. Louis, disputed the study's claim that the fossilized remains were of modern humans.
|
|
With his colleagues, he compared the size, shapes and arrangements of fossilized bones, then used computer simulations to group together species with similar characteristics.
|
|
In the comics, Ancient is male, an archaic Asian relic who owns an I've-seen-it-all face that looks like a fossilized prune.
|
|
Trilobites David Elliott was herding sheep on his motorbike in Queensland, Australia, in 2005 when he came across a pile of fossilized dinosaur bones.
|
|
Last year, 80 tonnes of fossilized mammoth ivory was gathered in the region, according to Nikita Shepelyov, Yakutia's deputy minister for industry and geology.
|
|
For instance, did you know an extinct archosaur is named for Georgia O'Keeffe (Effigia okeeffeae), after its fossilized bones were found near Ghost Ranch?
|
|
Then at some point before the adult wasps had the chance to emerge, they died and the entire thing — host and parasitoid — was fossilized.
|
|
Because sharks shed thousands of teeth in a lifetime, you might find hundreds of fossilized shark teeth in some places, including parts of Florida.
|
|
The fossilized roots-- footprints of an ancient landscape-- belonged to trees with wood and leaves, similar to what we see today, the study says.
|
|
But alas, until the team uncovers fossilized soft tissue, they will never know whether or not E. carrolldongi and the platypus shared a superpower.
|
|
What's more, he and his colleagues were able to detect internal organs and, at the molecular scale, traces of cellular layers within the fossilized skin.
|
|
The second fossilized snake, also preserved in amber, only consisted of bits of scales and skin, but these remnants were clearly snake-like in appearance.
|
|
Goldbogen and colleagues from the University of Chicago and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History measured more than 140 museum specimens of fossilized whales.
|
|
One species, called Maiopatagium furculiferum, had fossilized a wing membrane and fused wishbones reminiscent of birds, but shoulder girdles that looked like those of platypuses.
|
|
Dr. Mitchell looked for evidence of parasites in ancient latrines, human burial sites, fossilized feces, and in combs and textiles from excavation sites across Europe.
|
|
Instead, this 52-mile across space rock looks more like a fossilized glob of silly putty in closest image ever captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
|
|
Now, two years later, that 120-million-year-old block of fossilized sand has yielded 215 pterosaur eggs, 16 of which still have embryos inside.
|
|
Finding eggs is even harder: only a handful of pterosaur eggs have been discovered — and only three of these eggs contain fossilized embryos, Unwin says.
|
|
A scientist at Oregon State University thinks he's found that same tick full of monkey blood—these would be the oldest fossilized mammalian blood cells.
|
|
Researchers working in Burma have uncovered the fossilized remains of a 99-million-year old male daddy longlegs with its penis fully extended and erect.
|
|
The evidence for this apparent locomotion, also known as motility, was presented in the form of tiny fossilized wriggle marks embedded within ancient sedimentary rocks.
|
|
To a young me, Star Wars movies were scaffolding, a fossilized skeleton on which to hang other stories told by book, comic, or video game.
|
|
Scientists also discovered that the feathers were unique from one another as they found "distinct bands" of melanosomes or color pigmentation on the fossilized feathers.
|
|
Paleontologists first discovered the fossilized structures in the 1920s, but at the time they were thought to be an ancient seaweed or algae called Margaretia.
|
|
Researchers studying the fossilized remains of an Antarctic waterfowl called Vegavis iaai discovered within its chest the oldest known avian voice box, called a syrinx.
|
|
The fossilized poop also contained evidence of Dasylirion fibers, related to the asparagus family, and Opuntia, a cactus more commonly known as the prickly pear.
|
|
Prime international poop sources were the fossilized guano of the Chilean Atacama Desert, or the evaporated flood waters of the monsoon plains in Northern India.
|
|
Synchrotrons are a versatile type of particle accelerator that can be used for a range of scientific experiments, including non-invasive scanning of fossilized specimens.
|
|
So instead of looking for the bacteria and algae itself, the researchers sought out its fossilized biomarkers, such as porphyrins indicating the production of chlorophyll.
|
|
Geologists thought the sills formed over a few million years, whereas fossilized sediments show it took just a few thousand years to start the PETM.
|
|
The tooth, only partially fossilized, contained enough tissue that could be tested to show what the sloth ate for the last year it was alive.
|
|
Here are just a few recent examples: A science reporter explains the behavior of fossilized marine animals by likening them to humans making conga lines.
|
|
The nearly complete fossilized skeleton was found in 72-million-year-old marine deposits, suggesting the creature foraged along the shoreline, a rarity for hadrosaurs.
|
|
The fossilized remnants of a newly described creature, dubbed Yilingia spiciformis, were found in rocks pulled from China's Dengying Formation in the Yangtze Gorges area.
|
|
The square, silver hunk was resting on a bookshelf that held many other of Sacks' keepsakes: books from childhood, other metals and minerals, fossilized ferns.
|
|
Researchers discovered five fossilized jaws from a previously unknown dinosaur in the state of Victoria that was about the size of a modern-day wallaby.
|
|
Paleontologists know this thanks to studies of the dinosaur's fossilized poop; they've discovered T. rex feces containing tiny chunks of bone eroded by stomach acid.
|
|
If confirmed, it would only be only the third species of Archaeopteryx identified among the 12 known fossilized skeletons (or 10, depending on who you ask).
|
|
Image: Adrienne Stroup, Field MuseumThe fossilized remains of an early reptile dating back some 250 million years have been uncovered in the unlikeliest of places: Antarctica.
|
|
The next best option, therefore, is to look at their fossilized skulls and try to figure out the shape, size, and orientation of the Neanderthal brain.
|
|
The famous book in film series "Jurassic Park" were based on the premise of taking fossilized DNA from dinosaurs and cloning it to recreate the animals.
|
|
They are made from an iron oxide called hematite and may be fossilized cities built by microbial communities up to 23 billion years ago, Dodd said.
|
|
The discovery of a baby snake fossilized in amber shows that early snakes had spread beyond swamps and sea shores, finding their way into forested environments.
|
|
Finding ancient bugs trapped in amber is a relatively common occurrence, but the recent discovery of two ancient bird wings fossilized in Burmese amber is unprecedented.
|
|
Scientists have now determined the clump was actually the fossilized brain tissue of a large leaf-eating dinosaur, possibly from a species similar to the Iguanodon.
|
|
Researchers from North Dakota State University and the Smithsonian Institute have discovered the fossilized forewings of two extinct beetles on Beardmore Glacier near the Transantarctic Mountains.
|
|
How they did it: Researchers studied the attack marks - known as "drill holes" - in 7,000 different fossilized shells from the Phanerozoic period 540 million years ago.
|
|
An analysis of a young fossilized Neanderthal reveals that their brains may have grown more slowly like humans, according to a study published Thursday in Science.
|
|
Fossilized feathers only preserve when they're pigmented, so by mapping the presence and absence of feathers, the scientists were able to tease out its color patterns.
|
|
Who would want to ally with Saudi Arabia, a fossilized monarchy that won't even let women drive, which has long been accused of itself exporting extremism?
|
|
Paleontologists announced the discovery of this prehistoric species in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology earlier this year, after finding its fossilized remains in China's Yunnan province.
|
|
Australian geologists discovered some really weird and extremely old structures in Greenland: fossilized mounds made by microbes that are dated to about 3.6 billion years ago.
|
|
He made sculptures that evoked the fossilized remains of twentieth-century life: newspaper clippings, key rings, chain links, and other junk, floating in an epoxy ooze.
|
|
The pigments are derived from fossilized porphyrins, a type of organic compound that forms an atomic ring around a magnesium ion to form a chlorophyll molecule.
|
|
The fossilized mollusk shell belonged to a group called rudist clams, which grew quickly and recorded their lives in daily growth rings visible in the shells.
|
|
Trilobites Archaeologists on Monday announced the discovery of a fossilized human finger bone in the desert of Saudi Arabia that they said was 2000,000 years old.
|
|
So, Nathan Andersen, a geologist now at Georgia Institute of Technology, analyzed 49 crystals from the Bishop Tuff — a fossilized ash deposit from Long Valley's supereruption.
|
|
The fossilized remains of Crossvallia unienwillia were found in Antarctica, and researchers say the discovery provides evidence of a close connection between New Zealand and Antarctica.
|
|
The Hotel Portales in Colima, the Salton Sea and the saloon bars of El Centro and Mazatlán: These were flyblown places that all remained internally fossilized.
|
|
But so, too, is the quiet, marshy beach that runs the length of its backside, where fossilized bones and shark teeth are ripe for the picking.
|
|
What it says The fossilized remains were discovered in the Sahara by an expedition led by Hesham Sallam of the geology department at Egypt's Mansoura University.
|
|
Dr. Varricchio and other scientists had studied how porous fossilized eggshells were, which led them to conclude that the vast majority of dinosaur eggs were buried.
|
|
Analysis of the fossilized bones revealed characteristic signs of butchery, such as V-shaped gouges involved in evisceration and defleshing, and impact notches suggestive of marrow extraction.
|
|
Thankfully, fossilized bones tend to retain the correct physical orientation of a dead animal, but there's no tissue showing how muscles or ligaments may have constrained mobility.
|
|
Photo: Michael PetragliaTwo years prior, archaeologists had discovered the site, finding fossilized animal bones and troves of stone tools—tantalizing clues that hinted at former human occupation.
|
|
For the first time ever, paleontologists have identified fossilized soft brain tissue from a dinosaur, providing an unprecedented glimpse inside the heads of these iconic Mesozoic animals.
|
|
Fossilized footprints dating back to the early Cretaceous period have been unearthed across Bolivia, and smaller ones have been spotted in Chile, Brazil and Argentina as well.
|
|
They believe Terzan 5 is really a stellar system that represents a fossilized relic of galaxy formation, perhaps one of the earliest building blocks of our galaxy.
|
|
During the 28s, scores of fossilized eggs—many of which were uncovered by peasants—were shipped and sold overseas in rock and gem shows, stores, and markets.
|
|
The fossilized remains of this dinosaur were discovered in Queensland back in 2005, but it's taken over a decade for paleontologists to make sense of the bones.
|
|
This was supported by other lines of evidence not included in the paper, explained Unwin, like a surprisingly high number of tiny pterosaurs fossilized in marine environments.
|
|
Illustration: Chung-Tat CheungIts fossilized impressions—including traces of feathers and soft-tissue—were pulled from a 163-million-year-old rock formation in China's Liaoning province.
|
|
"Paleontological resources would mean any fossilized remains, traces, or imprints of organisms preserved in or on the Earth's crust," the Interior Department said in the Federal Register.
|
|
The authors of the new paper, graduate student Keegan Melstrom and museum chief curator Randall Irmis, reached this conclusion following a careful analysis of fossilized crocodyliform teeth.
|
|
The researchers haven't found any fossilized dung or teeth to determine what Savannasaurus ate, but it likely grew to that size on a low-quality vegetarian diet.
|
|
Insect bites on fossilized leaves have finally helped us solve a long-standing mystery around the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago.
|
|
The earliest known fossilized remains of modern humans have all been found on the African continent, but this is the earliest evidence of modern humans outside Africa.
|
|
Lucy and Selam Before this discovery, the oldest and most complete fossilized foot was 1.8 million years old and belonged to a Homo habilis, nicknamed OH 8.
|
|
In the last two or three decades, biological disciplines have joined dinosaur studies, applying tools capable of transcending the terrible claw limitations of fossilized skulls and bones.
|
|
I really don't think this needs to be said but, to date, no one has ever found a fossilized human femur the size of an apartment building.
|
|
The tissue in the fossilized brain, however, appeared to have been pressed against the skull, the scientists said, raising the possibility that some dinosaurs had larger brains.
|
|
Trilobites A rare blue pigment, discovered in the fossilized plaque of a German nun, hints at a broader role for women in the production of religious texts.
|
|
Scientists on Thursday announced the discovery of a fossilized human jawbone in a collapsed cave in Israel that they said is between 2000,23 and 230,2177 years old.
|
|
For more than a decade, scientists have speculated about the creatures that might have dug these tunnels, but have not been able to spot their fossilized bodies.
|
|
I once spoke with a student who told me that because his work with fossilized butterflies was so delicate, he needed to use the finest brush possible.
|
|
Now, scientists have found that the fossilized cranium belonged to an ancient relative of modern mammals that once scurried around North America some 130 million years ago.
|
|
The dinosaur, with fossilized skin and gut contents intact, came from the Millennium Mine six years ago in the oil sands of northern Alberta, once a seabed.
|
|
Another major implication of this study is what it means to archaeologists who are trying to discern the fossilized remains of Neanderthals, Denisovans, and early modern humans.
|
|
But it's clear that many in the food industry perceive GMA as fossilized and out-of-touch with both its nimbler members and, more importantly, the marketplace.
|
|
They'd also found six chunks of fossilized hyena dung, as well as "débitage," distinctive shards of flint left over when Neanderthals shattered larger pieces to make axes.
|
|
In the third "Jurassic Park" film, paleontologist Alan Grant figures out the sound a velociraptor makes by using a 3D-printed resonance chamber from a fossilized velociraptor.
|
|
Even still, these salamander organs and frog parts are likely some of the oldest organs preserved in three dimensions in any fossilized vertebrate sample, which is pretty nuts.
|
|
Hong Kong (CNN)The fossilized remains of a new species of winged dinosaur have been discovered in southern China by construction workers, who almost destroyed it with dynamite.
|
|
A team of paleontologists from China, Australia and Germany has discovered one such baby claw fossilized in a piece of 518-million-year-old shale in Yunnan, China.
|
|
The reaction stops quickly, much like how meteors are short-lived in the night sky, and this process essentially fossilized some of the chemistry from Earth's upper atmosphere.
|
|
Lomax happens to be an expert on the fossilized stomach contents of ancient ichthyosaurs, and he spotted them near the skeleton's abdomen after Larkin finished cleaning the fossil.
|
|
The fossilized babies of other species of ichthyosaurs had been found with fish scales in their guts, a sign that distinct species may have had distinct food preferences.
|
|
"It will be a great moment of introspection for humanity if you're the person who finds that one little fossilized flower on Mars," he says over rousing music.
|
|
Analysis of the samples confirmed the presence of both living and fossilized coral species, gorgonian sea whips (a fan-shaped soft coral), bamboo corals, molluscs, and stalked barnacles.
|
|
"Part of the tricky thing here is that the things that have hard parts are more likely to get fossilized than the things that are soft," Stephen explained.
|
|
On a Sunday in May 2012, the fossilized skeleton of an eight-foot-tall T. rex relative called Tarbosaurus bataar went up for auction in New York City.
|
|
Io, which looks like a fossilized jaw-breaker doused in acid and whose atmosphere collapses pretty regularly, certainly isn't the first moon I'd buy cosmic real estate on.
|
|
Illustration: Alberto GennariThe discovery of a fossilized, 42-million-year-old, four-legged whale is shedding new light on the evolution and geographical spread of these aquatic mammals.
|
|
Unlike other fossilized feathers, which tend to be preserved as impressions within the rock, the traces of this feather were laced onto the rock as a dark film.
|
|
To learn more about the claim that South America wasn't affected as badly, the team focused on nearly 4,000 fossilized leaves from a region of Argentina called Patagonia.
|
|
According to their study, which was published this week in Paleontology, a fossilized mouth called Omnidens (literally meaning "one tooth") was discovered in Chengjiang, China two decades ago.
|
|
A team of scientists aroused debate over what killed Lucy, the 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor whose fractured, fossilized remains were found in Ethiopia four decades ago.
|
|
As these humanoid avians bend upward from tapered limbs rooted to the muddy ground, their wingless, partly fragmented bodies locate them somewhere between fossilized victims and embryonic predators.
|
|
It points to evidence of fossilized marine animals called trilobites lining up one-by-one during a time when complex life was still coming of age on Earth.
|
|
An early study of Apidima 270 suggested the fragments were about 2000,2180 years old, and so it seemed likely that Apidima 2000 had fossilized around the same time.
|
|
I didn't realize until well into my mid-20s that Petoskeys aren't a precious metal — they're actually small pieces of fossilized coral, dating back to the Devonian Period.
|
|
We shift and slide among perspectives, from omniscience to Tash and Bianca and Rachel and even some ancient, half-fossilized teachers, and hardly notice the sequence of events.
|
|
In 2017, the shockingly life-like fossil of an armored dinosaur revealed the nodosaur, a 22013-million-year-old sleeping giant with fossilized skin and intact body armor.
|
|
They have been found often enough next to a fossilized large prehistoric fish called Aspidorhynchus that some researchers think the flying reptiles were frequently seized by the fish.
|
|
Mr. Krumenacker got out of his car, picked up the first large rock he saw and smashed it with a hammer, uncovering seven or eight fossilized shark teeth.
|
|
Previously, scientists thought a fossilized forest in Gilboa, New York, was the earliest, but the one in Cairo is two or three million years older and dramatically different.
|
|
The substance materialized over millions of years as fossilized organisms like zooplankton and algae were covered by stagnant water and further layers of these dead animals and plants.
|
|
Eospermatopteris, which looked a little like a modern palm tree, was also found at the next oldest fossilized forest, located about 30 miles away in Gilboa, New York.
|
|
Red algae, which looked really similar to Bangiomorpha (Image: Kelvinsong/Wikimedia Commons)The ancestor to pretty much all boning and photosynthesizing organisms might have been fossilized in Canadian rock.
|
|
Analysis of these fossilized bones (particularly the skull) and the fossils found alongside it suggests it was a pint-sized carnivore, munching on bugs, amphibians, and early proto-mammals.
|
|
"We thought that we could resolve this question by looking at fossilized bits of fish teeth, scales and bones from the El Kef section in Tunisia," MacLeod told Space.
|
|
Fossilized chaetognaths that include evidence of soft tissue are incredibly rare—the researchers say only two other unequivocal specimens have been reported, and both from fossil beds in China.
|
|
But what if the "stone" the prophecy refers to is actually the fossilized dragon eggs that are apparently scattered all over the damn place, according to Fire and Blood?
|
|
A fossilized shark skull that's more than 280 million years old could be a missing evolutionary link between sharks, and their strange deep-sea relatives known as ghost sharks.
|
|
The tissue of this dinosaur's fossilized brain appeared to have been pressed directly against its skull, which could mean it had a large brain that filled the entire cavity.
|
|
Researchers have only a few bones that even point to the existence of Denisovans, but fossilized DNA that could be sequenced has allowed us to learn more about them.
|
|
In the rock record, where stories of our solar system's past lay buried, we might find the fossilized recoil of startled atomic nuclei, the frozen footprints of a WIMP.
|
|
The fossilized remnants of this extraordinary creature, including a nearly complete skull with some teeth, were uncovered in 2013 by paleontologists from CONICET, Universidad Maimónides, and several other institutions.
|
|
The find: Fossilized remains of a partial skull and lower jaw were found along with stone tools at a mining site between Marrakech and the Atlantic Coast of Morocco.
|
|
Researchers were able to observe in the fossilized record how ocean predators increased in size over millions of years and how that drove more changes down the food web.
|
|
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads To most people, fossilized candy, hairballs, and animal bones belong in the trash, but for Yuji Agematsu, such detritus deserves preservation for posterity.
|
|
Hublin and his team found the fossilized remains, along with stone tools and animal bones, at the Jebel Irhoud archeological cave site, which lies 62 miles west of Marrakesh.
|
|
Even then, Clarke surmised that the fossilized bones came from an Australopithecus species -- the smallish, ape-like human ancestors that roamed this part of Africa millions of years ago.
|
|
Scientists don't know why the two regions rebounded at different rates, but studies of fossilized leaves with nibbles and bite marks from insects showed evidence of Patagonia's speedier recovery.
|
|
That, rather than some external poison, was probably the cause of a bone tumor diagnosed as an osteosarcoma found fossilized in Swartkrans Cave, a paleoanthropological trove northwest of Johannesburg.
|
|
The deep covered veranda across the back of the house has beamed Spanish cedar ceilings, ceiling fans and floors made of coralina, a fossilized stone from the Dominican Republic.
|
|
Paleontologists can estimate the age that a dinosaur was when it died by analyzing its fossilized bones, which have growth rings that correspond to its age, much like trees.
|
|
Dr. Rainbird's analysis of the rocks showed that these organisms, whatever they were, had fossilized a billion years ago in an estuary, where a river flowed into a sea.
|
|
Mr. Long described his fossilized-looking, crystal-studded sculpture of an enormous phallic stump, which takes over an entire wall, as "Father Earth" in a wry but hopeful way.
|
|
In subsequent research, Dr. Erickson and his colleagues also found evidence of digested bones in the fossilized excrement of a T. rex, showing that the beast had consumed bones.
|
|
The fossilized trails provide a timeline for the Cambrian revolution, the "explosion" of life 540 million years ago that included many major animal groups that exist on Earth today.
|
|
According to scientists, the fossilized embryo is a giant oviraptorosaur, a large feathered dinosaur that weighed up to one ton and had sharp claws and a toothless beak. 13.
|
|
Throughout he is a companionable guide, as good at breathing life into the fossilized prose of scientific papers as he is at conjuring the Ordovician reign of the nautiloids.
|
|
The researchers looked specifically at data on 1,794 fossilized species of zooplankton, and how they appeared and disappeared during the time period from 481 million to 419 million years ago.
|
|
"The reds (the Social Democrats) are so fossilized and encrusted," said 79-year-old Heinrich Kohlmann, attending Kurz's party clad in traditional Austrian costume and clutching two glasses of beer.
|
|
Scientists have struggled to trace the ghost shark family tree owing to a dearth of fossilized remains; their bodies are made of cartilage, which doesn't preserve as well as bone.
|
|
Grover Marquina, a tour guide, was trekking through the Maragua Crater about 65 kilometers (40 miles) from the capital Sucre when he stumbled upon the fossilized footprint on July 19.
|
|
The fossilized remains of a Late Cretaceous dinosaur embryo that famously graced the cover of National Geographic in the 2425s have been identified as a new species of oversized oviraptorosaur.
|
|
The fossilized remains of this newly discovered pterosaur were discovered in the Patagonia region of South America, and it's shedding light on the origin and evolution of these ancient creatures.
|
|
Two sets of fossilized teeth found in the Sterkfontein Cave near Johannesburg, South Africa, were studied to understand more about how these early human ancestors responded to seasonal dietary changes.
|
|
The Daspletosaurus horneri lived earlier and was much smaller than its more famous cousin, but the fossilized skulls gave an unusually good look at the structure of their ferocious faces.
|
|
The Storr Lochs specimen dates back 170 million years to the Middle Jurassic period, and represents the most complete fossilized skeleton of a Mesozoic seafaring reptile ever found in Scotland.
|
|
What this unsuspecting pedestrian had discovered were the fossilized remains of an ancient sea cow, possibly belonging to the extinct genus called Prototherium, according to the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.
|
|
Ryan McKellar, a paleontologist from the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Canada and an author on the paper, said the fossilized snakeskin was trapped along with plants, cockroaches and insect droppings.
|
|
In 2005, he was part of a team at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany, which developed an advanced genetic sequencing technology to read DNA extracted from fossilized bones.
|
|
According to a report published in the journal Science Advances, researchers examined fossilized wing scales found in northern Germany and dated them to be from the Triassic and Jurassic period.
|
|
As to why the Neanderthals disappeared some 40,000 years ago remains a mystery, but we're getting closer to the answer—even if it is one fossilized step at a time.
|
|
Made in France, these waiter-style corkscrews have unique handles crafted with amazing materials like ancient trees found in the garden at Versailles, stag's horn and even fossilized mammoth tusks.
|
|
These are the people who keep the ideology from becoming fossilized because they force everyone to constantly rethink things, and these are the very voices that have been shut down.
|
|
To do so, they used a non-invasive technique known as phase-contrast synchrotron microtomography, which allows scientists to visualize the interior of fossilized bones in three-dimensions without damaging them.
|
|
The discovery was made by Aodhán Ó Gogáin, a PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin's School of Natural Sciences, who found baby shark teeth in adult Orthacanthus coprolites, or fossilized poop.
|
|
Photo: Yingqi Zhang and Yong XuDNA from a 22,000-year-old fossilized panda skull suggests an entirely separate lineage of giant pandas once roamed the area that is now southern China.
|
|
Illustration: Nobumichi TamuraAn analysis of the fossilized remains of an Ichthyosaur—a Jurassic-era aquatic reptile—has revealed the presence of between six and eight small embryos packed within its ribs.
|
|
More research was done on the samples in 2002, but skeptics remained unconvinced, saying the shapes were strange minerals that just happened to look like the fossilized remnants of biological specimens.
|
|
Using a technique that was initially developed to infer what extinct mammals ate, Melstrom and Irmis analyzed the dimensions and structures of the fossilized teeth and compared them to living crocodilians.
|
|
It might be possible to learn more about their diet by searching for isotopes in the fossilized teeth, Melstrom said, but that comes at a high price to the specimens themselves.
|
|
But they also have long, thin tails that these ancient arachnids probably used to sense their environments, a much more primitive feature seen only in fossilized proto-spiders known as uraraneids.
|
|
Scientists from North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences have discovered a way to determine whether certain fossilized dinosaurs were pregnant at the time they died.
|
|
According to U.S. News & World Report, a fossilized skull recently discovered in the Pavlodar region of Kazakhstan puts Siberian unicorns, or Elasmotherium sibiricum, galloping around the Earth only 29,000 years ago.
|
|
There are older fossilized life forms — up to 4 billion years old — but these are possibly the oldest examples of multicellular eukaryotes life forms that have a nucleus in each cell.
|
|
In that study, researchers analyzed thousands of fossilized tree rings from France and Germany and calculated how much it had rained there (in millimeters) every spring for the past 2,500 years.
|
|
The fossilized wriggle marks found inside of these rocks, according to the new research, are the tunnels left behind by these primitive creatures as they squirmed around in search of nutrients.
|
|
The 150-million-year-old fossilized feather was uncovered in 1861 within Late Jurassic limestones from the Solnhofen area of southern Germany, and it was the first fossil feather ever discovered.
|
|
A site in Morocco has revealed the fossilized remains of at least five Homo sapiens—a classification that includes us modern living humans—dating back 300,000 years or maybe even longer.
|
|
Bite marks on fossilized bones of dinosaurs like the horned Triceratops that lived alongside Tyrannosaurus some 66 million years ago in western North America indicated T. rex was a bone-cruncher.
|
|
According to thousands of genetic markers, traced from 300 blood samples and fossilized material, it's possible that 17 species or subspecies of kiwi once existed—11 of which are still alive.
|
|
As a result, scientists have suggested that trilobites and other fossilized arthropods used calcite to fortify their eye structure, even though this would make lenses more rigid and difficult to focus.
|
|
To reach that conclusion, Hannah Shamloo, a graduate student at Arizona State University, and her colleagues spent weeks at Yellowstone's Lava Creek Tuff — a fossilized ash deposit from its last supereruption.
|
|
For the kids who will throng this new exhibition, and who will adore this show's colorful animations and fossilized dino poop, T. rex may still appear to be a thrilling monster.
|
|
Both specimens were sourced from the amber mines of Myanmar, which are packed with these haunting tableaus of the past, suspended within the fossilized resin of trees that are long dead.
|
|
Driving the news: A new study finds NASA's Mars 2020 rover will land in an area that could be the perfect place to hunt for the fossilized evidence of past life.
|
|
It begins: Forty years ago in Laetoli, Tanzania, an elephant dung fight between a couple of paleoanthropologists led to a discovery: a fossilized animal print, at least 3.6 million years old.
|
|
They suspect the eggs and some juvenile and adult individuals were washed away from a nesting site in a storm and into the lake, where they were preserved and later fossilized.
|
|
Not only is Dinosaur National Monument home to some of the most well-preserved fossilized dinosaur footprints in the US, but it also has astonishing petroglyphs dating back over 2,000 years.
|
|
This newly-described oviratporid is called Corythoraptor jacobsi, and its fossilized remains—a beautifully preserved and practically complete skeleton—were uncovered near a train station in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, in southern China.
|
|
More convincing evidence of insectoid pollinators dates back 165 million years, to the Middle Jurassic, in the form of fossilized scorpionflies, who likely used their long proboscis to pollinate non-flowering plants.
|
|
But if you think about it, it's pretty cool that a fossilized bird the size of a cockroach can shake up what scientists know about how bones developed in the first birds.
|
|
A tiny fossilized foot no larger than a human thumb reveals some of the physical capacities of A. afarensis and their possible behaviors, according to new research published today in Science Advances.
|
|
The discovery of a pair of 99-million-year old bird wings fossilized in amber is now offering an unprecedented glimpse into these early birds and what they must have looked like.
|
|
The two men claimed to have excavated human skull fragments and a distinctly ape-like jawbone with two worn molar teeth, along with some stone tools and the fossilized remains of animals.
|
|
But Deeming and others agree that the block of fossilized eggs is an amazing find that will deepen our understanding of some of the most peculiar animals to ever inhabit our planet.
|
|
Named after our oldest pre-human ancestor, Lucy (the 3.18 million-year-old fossilized hominid skeleton found in Ethiopia in the 1970s) the sculpture posits Africa's centrality in a shared human history.
|
|
A cluster of fossilized algae discovered in India is believed to be 1.6 billion years old, suggesting advanced multicellular life evolved on Earth hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought.
|
|
On Monday morning, Scotland-based paleontologists unveiled the fossilized remains of the "Storr Lochs Monster," an extinct ocean hunter named for the region in the Isle of Skye where it was found.
|
|
When it comes to farming, termites are OG. By searching through cliffs in southwestern Tanzania, researchers have discovered fossilized "fungus gardens" created by termites 25 million years ago, reports The Washington Post.
|
|
But Aboriginal leaders say what's in their backyard is not only significant culturally and spiritually but priceless - heritage sites full of archaeological treasures including burial mounds, fossilized bone and countless stone tools.
|
|
It is time to move past the failed policies and fossilized positions of the previous generation, and the "Shared Border, Shared Future" report offers a specific vision of how to do that.
|
|
The new fossils, if they are indeed that, trounce the previous record-holder for "oldest fossilized life form," which are 3.5-billion-year-old stromatolites found in Australia — and by a landslide.
|
|
A tiny fossilized molar found nestled in the sweltering shrub land of Kenya's Tugen Hills belonged to what may be the smallest species of ape yet discovered, according to a new study.
|
|
Evidence of insects in written reports, fossilized feces and mummies found in caves across North America, and corroboration from nearly every other continent, suggest humans have valued insects as food for millenniums.
|
|
It's hard to imagine how to "green" the US's fossilized war machine without fundamentally questioning its purpose in a 21st century defined by the need for international cooperation against the climate crisis.
|
|
Image: AugettesBeneath the metallic frame of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the fossilized remains of an unknown species of dinosaur sold to an anonymous buyer earlier today for €2 million (USD $2.3 million).
|
|
On the featherweight end of the spectrum, the team studied the embryo of a sheep-sized species of horned dinosaur called Protoceratops, fossilized within an egg estimated to have weighed about 194 grams.
|
|
Earth's oldest pollinating insects are a bit of a mystery, but fossilized insect dung containing bits of pollen suggest they first emerged during the Middle Triassic (247 million to 237 million years ago).
|
|
"The biggest impact to me is the fact that we have now X-ray tools that can recover information about a fossilized organism from tiny traces preserved for millions of years," Bergmann said.
|
|
"Most of the fossil record consists of adults—it is unusual to find fossilized remains of children, and these give us wonderful insight into growth and development in our ancestors," DeSilva told Gizmodo.
|
|
"The most important question that needs to be answered in that race is whether Steve Chabot can be de-fossilized," said one national Republican strategist, who like others requested anonymity to speak candidly.
|
|
Roughly 200 million years later, paleontologist Dean Lomax was examining this creature's fossilized remains at the University of Birmingham's Lapworth Museum of Geology when he realized he was seeing a few fossil firsts.
|
|
Image: University of Cambridge/Jamie HiscocksThanks to a poor dinosaur who scientists believe fell into a noxious pond after it died, we may have the first known fossilized dinosaur brain on our hands.
|
|
The fossilized remains of this feathered, bird-like dinosaur were preserved with its limbs outstretched, and its head raised—suggesting it was hopelessly stuck in a patch of mud, where it eventually died.
|
|
The size of the brain While the fossilized brain fits in a closed hand, its size is also raising attention as it is considered large for the herbivorous dinosaur that it belongs to.
|
|
Scientists said on Thursday fossilized dung thought to have come from herbivorous duck-billed dinosaurs that inhabited southern Utah 75 million years ago contained pieces of crustacean shells along with vestiges of vegetation.
|
|
Suspended within a snowglobe-sized chunk of fossilized tree resin, Xing recognized the partial remains of an exquisitely preserved feathered tail belonging to a small juvenile coelurosaur, a type of bird-like dinosaur.
|
|
The resulting footprints became locked in stone, but unlike other fossilized dinosaur tracks, these 103-million-year-old fossils show skin impressions across the entire footprint, in what is considered an unprecedented discovery.
|
|
LYON, France (Reuters) - The fossilized skeleton of an unidentified type of dinosaur is set to be auctioned in Paris in June, and could fetch up to 1.8 million euros ($2.22 million), auctioneers said.
|
|
Researchers from the United States, England and Sweden studied the fossil record from North America to New Zealand, looking closely at charcoal remains of trees, fossilized pollen and fern spores, and bird fossils.
|
|
And they didn't matter in the same way that the actuality of a bad Christmas present doesn't matter—the betrayal goes above and beyond getting a pencil case or a fake fossilized fish.
|
|
Researchers recently said that they had found preserved organic protein (which might still have soft tissue inside) in a fossilized dinosaur bone unearthed in China, according to a study published in Nature Communications.
|
|
White drew inspiration from the locals in the swampy Hampshire fens, who used moisture on the landscape to help them locate buried bog oak — partly fossilized trees — which could be used for fuel.
|
|
Lake deposits, fossilized plants and animals, radiocarbon dating, ash from volcanic eruptions and other archaeological data allowed them to match the climate record alongside human activity at the site for the first time.
|
|
A group of scientists have found what may be the most intact fossilized primate skull ever discovered, and the find could shed light on the common evolutionary heritage shared by apes and humans.
|
|
Together, the researchers have evidence of an influx of space dust trapped in fossilized rock as well as indications of an ice age both dating to the same time, marrying cause and effect.
|
|
New research published this week in Science Advances reveals the fossilized footprints left by one of these early creatures, and it's considered the oldest known trackway made by a bilaterian creature with paired appendages.
|
|
The question of when life first emerged on Earth has challenged scientists for centuries, but a new study in Nature offers the oldest fossilized evidence yet for the presence of life on our planet.
|
|
By examining fossilized DNA, pollen, and spores, scientists discovered that the St. Paul mammoths had likely run out of fresh water as their tiny island dried up, before finally going extinct 5,600 years ago.
|
|
A team of American and Peruvian scientists led by Richard Kay, an evolutionary anthropologist at Duke University, identified the monkey from its tiny fossilized tooth, which is about the size of a sand grain.
|
|
The depictions at the National Portrait Gallery are more than good enough — and the better for being such distinctive, explicitly human departures from a fossilized tradition that, with luck, will never be the same.
|
|
But gun rights activists believe that the events of the last few weeks mean the debate will never return to its fossilized battle lines, whatever Congress and the Trump administration do or don't do.
|
|
Other versions of the dish temper the heat with mushrooms, potatoes or hard, nearly fossilized beef, dried in-house for days — delicious, once you revive your animal within and break it with your teeth.
|
|
But if you were to wager a guess, they probably had a similar expression to that of Ryosuke Motani when he initially encountered the fossilized remains of the extinct marine reptile called Eretmorhipis carrolldongi.
|
|
The researchers linked the tree to the dates assigned to fossilized penguins, and from that, they were able to deduce the rough timing of the penguins' radiation into different species over millions of years.
|
|
The fragmented fossilized remains of the horror-croc (nicknamed 'Razana', as in 'Razana, Eater of Worlds') have been described in a new paper in the journal PeerJ by a team of Italian and French paleontologists.
|
|
On a humid summer's day in 1996, President Bill Clinton appeared on the South Lawn of The White House and announced that NASA had discovered what looked to be fossilized bacteria on a Martian meteorite.
|
|
Through a process of erosion, ancient rivers lifted the fossilized resin, produced by species of trees formerly found in Europe and now extinct, and carried it to the Kaliningrad region, creating the world's largest reserves.
|
|
Karma Nanglu, a paleobiologist and graduate student at the University of Toronto, was exploring the Burgess Shale Formation in the Canadian Rockies with his colleagues when they uncovered several fossilized tubes in slabs of rocks.
|
|
Paleontologist Sam Heads, who specializes in fossilized insects, was digitizing specimens from the Crato Formation when he found an orangey-brown something-or-other that got him wondering about what it was, he told me.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - British and Australian scientists have identified an unassuming brown pebble, found more than a decade ago by a fossil hunter in southern England, as the first known example of fossilized dinosaur brain tissue.
|
|
And what they recently found — a probable 19703-billion-year-old fossilized mat of microbes — could have "staggering" implications for the history of life on Earth, says one scientist who wasn't involved in the work.
|
|
Where the summer anthem has remained an inflexible proposition—fossilized into the nation's shared memory during a period of intense languor, defined mostly by an appetite for maximalism—fall is best described as a mood.
|
|
The dinosaur's fossilized remains were found in Liaoning, in northeast China, in 2017 and at first they confused Min Wang, a Chinese paleontologist and lead author of a study published this week describing the new dinosaur.
|
|
Photo: LAMTALast week, a construction project for the Los Angeles subway turned into a scientific excavation after workers uncovered fossilized skull, tooth and tusk fragments from ancient elephant relatives that have been extinct for 10,000 years.
|
|
Traces of the fossilized microbes were found encased in quartz layers at the site of what was once an ancient hydrothermal vent—an opening in the sea floor out of which heated mineral-rich water flows.
|
|
The confirmation a 160,000-year-old fossilized jaw unearthed in Tibet belongs to the Denisovans, a species distinct from modern humans and Neanderthals, sheds new light on the hominid and indicates another link to Himalayan people.
|
|
In the process, the president is growing a Trump Republican Party that will turn the never-Trumpers into a fossilized remnant of bitter-enders that attract smaller and smaller audiences who pay less and less attention.
|
|
But a pair of studies published today in Nature describing fossilized human remains and stone tools found in Morocco suggests modern humans had moved across the continent at least 100,000 years earlier and continued to evolve.
|
|
That may have been the making of the oldest known fossil of a mushroom - which will typically live for just a few days and are rarely fossilized - that was found in Brazil, scientists reported this week.
|
|
The animal's fossilized remains, described in a study published today in the Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences, reveal that smaller hunters like Timurlengia pioneered many of the adaptations that made later tyrannosaur incarnations so successful.
|
|
On a recent afternoon, the bearded bartender explained the reference: a legendary scheme cultivated by the mischievous showman P. T. Barnum, who, in 1869, claimed that he had "discovered" a huge, fossilized man upstate, in Cardiff.
|
|
A former sculptor and pioneer for sustainable gold mining, she has developed, with the help of the British Museum, a two-year drying process for fossilized ivory, as it starts to rot on exposure to oxygen.
|
|
The fossilized skull of the Echo Hunter, discovered in South Carolina about 15 years ago, was unusually well-preserved, allowing researchers to analyze its facial features and the physiology of its inner ear in great detail.
|
|
For example, paleontologists now know that the T. rex had a literally bone-crushing bite force of nearly 8,000 pounds, thanks to biomechanical modeling of its head and chemical analysis of its fossilized feces (called coprolites).
|
|
But though it lived to an advanced age, Scotty was no stranger to injuries; the fossilized bones show it suffered broken ribs, an infected jaw, and a possible bite from a rival tyrannosaur on its tail.
|
|
Cycads were previously found in what is now the UK millions of years ago, during the Jurassic period, and pieces of fossilized extinct cycads have even been found in the cliffs of the Isle of Wight.
|
|
" This, she explained, was the name given by paleoanthropologists to the fossilized skeleton of the most ancient, recognizably human figure ever found -- "a female being who lived on the African continent some three million years ago.
|
|
"From some of the soft tissue we have found fossilized, early sharks would have had a similar body plan to most modern day sharks," said Emma Bernard, fish fossil curator at the British Natural History Museum.
|
|
Meticulous excavations at the Le Rozel Site in Normandy, France, from 2012 to 503 have revealed 257 fossilized Neanderthal footprints, an analysis of which is published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
|
|
The biggest discovery was a site in North Dakota that preserved a jumble of fossilized fish and plant life that may have been thrown together by a tsunami on the very day of the meteorite strike.
|
|
Finally, Orobates left behind an excellent fossil record of its time on Earth, along with fossilized trackways of its footprints—a double-whammy that allowed the researchers to conduct a quantitative physical analysis of this extinct creature.
|
|
If confirmed as fossilized communities of bacteria known as stromatolites - rather than a freak natural formation - the lumps would pre-date fossils found in Australia as the earliest evidence of life on Earth by 220 million years.
|
|
Scientists on Thursday described the reptile, named Triopticus primus, based on a fossilized partial skull dug up in 1940 near Big Spring, Texas, that had long languished in a drawer in a University of Texas paleontology collection.
|
|
Credit: Reconstruction by G. Mayr/Senckenberg Research Institute The fossilized partial skeleton of the penguin was discovered in the Otago region of New Zealand's South Island, consisting mostly of pieces of the wings, chest area, and legs.
|
|
Her fossilized femur contains traces of medullary bone, which is a calcium-rich bone tissue that is only produced during the reproductive cycle of female birds and their egg-laying ancestors—including theropod dinosaurs like T. rex.
|
|
Three years later, paleontologist Matthew Borths, now a National Science Foundation postdoctoral research fellow in the Stevens Lab at Ohio University, did the same, prompting the two to collaborate on a detailed investigation of the fossilized pieces.
|
|
Never seen before on dinosaur remains, these marks indicate that the carcass floated in a marine basin and then sank to the sea floor, where it remained for months or even years before becoming buried and fossilized.
|
|
Chickens come into the picture because they're the world's most common livestock animal—every year, over 60 billion chickens are killed, according to The Guardian, and their bones could wind up fossilized in landfills around the world.
|
|
This is a big deal: Paleontologists found collagen (a protein found in all animal bodies that serves as a building block for organisms) preserved in the fossilized bones of a species of dinosaur known as a Lufengosaurus.
|
|
To get a sense of it, imagine the 66-million-year-old fossilized T. rex tooth, as thick and curved as a banana, bearing down into your flesh with the weight of a midsize U-Haul truck.
|
|
"My feeling about this frozen moment, I think about what happened in Pompeii," said Mr. Volpe — originally from Priverno, Italy — referencing the archaeological site where people were fossilized by the lava of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.
|
|
Researchers on Wednesday said about 50 fossilized footprints making up several different trackways were found at the two sites located a few hundred yards (meters) apart on the scenic promontory that juts into the chilly North Atlantic.
|
|
Think of the weirdly realistic theme park design in ''Jurassic Park,'' and what its fossilized columns and thatched roofs convey about not just the character who created it but also about the human obsession with reproducing nature.
|
|
To help understand the temperature of the local environment when the eggs were laid, the researchers conducted the same kind of analysis on fossilized shells of cold-blooded invertebrates, which take on the temperature of their surroundings.
|
|
Dr. Erickson became curious with figuring out the bite force of the T. rex as a graduate student in the mid-1990s when a colleague showed him a fossilized triceratops pelvis riddled with about 503 bite marks.
|
|
It takes just a few minutes holding a fossilized, pill-bug-looking marine trilobite that swam through Paleozoic seas 500 million years ago to make you aware of the bliplike nature of your own time on Earth.
|
|
Her vivid survival story is interwoven with the tale of a pregnant archaeologist named Rosamund, who makes a startling discovery when she finds the fossilized remains of a Neanderthal and a human buried next to each other.
|
|
Hadrosaurs were a super successful group of dinosaurs that lived during the Late Cretaceous period (100 million to 66 million years ago), with their fossilized bones having been recovered in Eurasia, North and South America, and Antarctica.
|
|
For tens of millions of years, everything north of the equator seemed to be a land of total placental mammal dominance—but the fossilized remains of a cat-sized metatherian carnivore in Turkey are now challenging that story.
|
|
The skull is about 16 inches long and 8.5 inches wide and has a fossilized appearance, which led the paleontologists to wonder whether it was from a modern grizzly or a more primitive species, the wildlife department said.
|
|
So far, no fossilized bones have been found, but the footprints reveal key details about the dinosaur, chiefly that it was a large theropod and part of the same group that included the aforementioned T. rex and Giganotosaurus.
|
|
Even mammals, the supposed underdogs of the Mesozoic, occasionally had their day in the sun: Repenomamus, something of a 130 million year old murderous wombat, was discovered with the remains of a baby dinosaur fossilized in its belly.
|
|
Photo: DePalma et al (PNAS 2019)At one of the most important ancient graveyards on Earth in North Dakota, paleontologists unearthed the fossilized remains of fish seemingly killed by the effects of the asteroid that ended the Cretaceous.
|
|
This fossilized insect probably isn't the direct ancestor of cimicids today, but its close genetic relationship to the family helped the authors work out a timeline for the ancestral insect that would give rise to the bed bug.
|
|
An Australian teacher and fossil enthusiast stumbled upon the finding of a lifetime when he uncovered a set of fossilized 3-inch teeth from an extinct shark , known as the great jagged narrow-toothed shark or Carcharocles angustidens .
|
|
I had never met DePalma, but we had corresponded on paleontological matters for years, ever since he had read a novel I'd written that centered on the discovery of a fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex killed by the KT impact.
|
|
The fossilized partial skeleton is estimated to be between 59.5 milion and 55 million years old, making it one of the oldest-known giant penguins, and it's changing what we know about the early version of the bird.
|
|
Trilobites Since it was first uncovered more than a half a century ago, this kooky-looking creature known as the "Tully monster" has puzzled paleontologists who, frankly, could not make heads, tails or claws of its fossilized remains.
|
|
The fossilized remains of the bird were found on Canada's remote Axel Heiberg Island, perched high in the Arctic Circle, during an expedition led by John Tarduno, chair of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Rochester.
|
|
By examining the shells of ancient fossilized bivalves — underwater mollusks like oysters and mussels — from around the world, scientists identified a global increase in mercury and carbon dioxide, and oceanic warming, about 250,000 years before the asteroid hit.
|
|
Everything about this is disturbing and strange, from the laser she's not supposed to touch on the way to "the event chamber" to the fossilized remains of a previous participant that are hauled out before she steps in.
|
|
Starting in the mid-1950s, leading teams from Columbia University, Dr. Solecki discovered the fossilized skeletons of eight adult and two infant Neanderthals who had lived tens of thousands of years ago in what is now northern Iraq.
|
|
It's the first time paleontologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a pregnant Ichthyosaur (pronounced "ick-thee-oh-sore") in Yorkshire, and it's the earliest occurrence of Ichthyosaur embryos in the United Kingdom, dating back some 180 million years.
|
|
One of the fossilized skeletons represents an entirely new genus and species that has been named Savannasaurus elliottorum (nicknamed "Wade" in honor of the renowned Australian paleontologist Mary Wade, who died in 2005 while the specimens were being excavated).
|
|
The discovery: Scientists found fossilized, scaly skin on the T. rex and other tyrannosaur species in North America and Asia, a strong challenge to the idea that T. rex w was covered in feathers like some of its ancestors.
|
|
Underwater archaeologists and other researchers have taken a second look at a sinkhole 30 feet deep in the Aucilla River in northern Florida that is rich with remnants of stone tools, as well as fossilized mastodon bones and dung.
|
|
After examining more than 3,600 fossilized leaves from Patagonia for insect damage, researchers have concluded that it took about 4 million years for insects in South America to recover after the mass extinction event that ended the Cretaceous period.
|
|
The fossilized brain, found by fossil enthusiast Jamie Hiscocks near Bexhill in Sussex in 2004, is most likely from a species similar to Iguanodon - a large herbivore that lived during the early cretaceous period, some 133 million years ago.
|
|
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A dazzling discovery in northwestern China of hundreds of fossilized pterosaur eggs is providing fresh understanding of these flying reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs including evidence that their babies were born flightless and needed parental care.
|
|
Researchers said on Thursday a chunk of amber - fossilized resin - spotted by a Chinese scientist in a market in Myitkyina, Myanmar, last year contained 1.4 inches (36 mm) of the tail of the dinosaur, complete with bones, flesh, skin and feathers.
|
|
Scientists suspected ichthyosaurs might be warm-blooded, based on estimates of their swimming speed, but this new discovery, the details of which were published today in Nature, is the first to provide evidence in the form of fossilized subdermal soft-tissue.
|
|
Dilophosaurus wetherilli (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto)Injuries are common in the fossilized remains of dinosaurs, but the recent discovery of a severely roughed-up skeleton in Arizona establishes a new record for the most bone injuries sustained by a single theropod.
|
|
The surprising discovery of the fossilized remains of five early humans at a site in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco—along with evidence of stone tools, animal bones, and use of fire—is adding an important piece to this frustratingly incomplete archaeological puzzle.
|
|
He had the necessary access and connections, and he knew that the British scientists would expect to see "a large brain, ape-like face and jaws, and heavily fossilized materials that indicated great antiquity" in any missing link, the authors write.
|
|
The discovery of a fossilized Elasmotherium sibiricum skull in Kazakhstan has led paleontologists to significantly move up the time when the animal last roamed the Earth, according to a new study published in the open access American Journal of Applied Sciences.
|
|
They compared the fossilized bones to white-throated rail specimens from the Natural History Museum at Tring, some originating from Malagasy birds that could fly and some from Aldabran birds that had evolved such that they lost the ability to fly.
|
|
Stories of the streams of musicians, journalists, and artists like Ginger Baker and George Harrison flocking up its narrow staircases fossilized the year he spent there from '68–'69 in folklore, but the place was already part of music consciousness.
|
|
It includes discoveries on the smallest scale—one of the researchers found a fossil invertebrate that had burrowed into previously fossilized poop, for example—as well as bigger-picture thinking about the history of the planet, beyond just dirt and bones.
|
|
X-ray scans indicate that the fossilized wings — found in northern Myanmar — likely belonged to juvenile creatures, and contain skin, muscle, and claws, as well as various layers of feathers, arranged in a markedly similar fashion to those of birds.
|
|
Another recent discovery is the hollow-boned Dilong (66 million years ago), the first tyrannosaur found with fossilized feathers — discovered in 2212 by Mark Norell, the museum's chairman of paleontology and the curator of this show, and five Chinese colleagues.
|
|
Ms. Cabán became obsessed with the race and what it promised, namely a way to abandon fossilized, tough-on-crime rhetoric in favor of calls to upend the system so that harsh consequence and arbitrary punishment were no longer default goals.
|
|
A few peaks and valleys over, Becky Barnes, another paleontologist, clad in jeans and one of her many humorous dinosaur-theme T-shirts, bent over a fossilized tortoise shell, her long braid poking out beneath a tan, wide-brimmed hat.
|
|
This fossilized bone, measuring just 23 centimeters (1.25 inches) in length, is the oldest directly dated Homo sapiens fossil discovered outside of Africa and the neighboring Levant, according to a study published in Monday the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution.
|
|
But I laud Gore for trying to work with him on this issue, because if Trump was to embrace the science of climate change, it would be game over for the fossilized climate deniers who remain in his own party.
|
|
Botswana is known for its eco-diversity, and much of its tourism is driven by places like the Kalahari Desert, which is actually dominated by grasslands and fossilized river valleys, and is home to wildlife like cheetahs, giraffes and hyenas.
|
|
This "fossilized action snapshot" is the first evidence scientists have that these winged contemporaries of dinosaurs ate prehistoric squid, or at least tried, said Jean-Paul Billon Bruyat, an expert in prehistoric reptiles who was not involved in the research.
|
|
Prior to this study, the earliest known insect feeding on feathers is Megamenopon rasnitsyni, a fossilized louse found in Germany that lived 44 million years ago, said Chungkun Shih, study author at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.
|
|
But on a recent night at Dek Sen in Elmhurst, Queens, it was presented whole, as if it were a pizza — albeit one that looked like a fossilized doily, spiked with fish sauce and buoyed on a bed of bean sprouts.
|
|
The experts found tiny humps, between one and 4 cm (0.4 and 1.6 inches) tall, in rocks at Isua in south-west Greenland that they said were fossilized groups of microbes similar to ones now found in seas from Bermuda to Australia.
|
|
The fossilized skull and skeleton were unearthed and collected from the Uzunçarşıdere Formation in Turkey's Central Anatolia region, and described in a new paper in the journal PLOS ONE by researchers from the University of Washington and the UK's University of Salford.
|
|
Paleontologists have found fossilized insects in all sorts of interesting predicaments, from an ant with a parasite still stuck to its head and a wasp being attacked by a spider through to a daddy longlegs with its penis fully extended and erect.
|
|
"Behavior can be a tricky trait to determine because a lot of behavior doesn't have a great chance of being fossilized," says Lisa Buckley, a co-author on the paper and a paleontologist at the Peace Region Palaeontology Research Centre in British Columbia.
|
|
The first fossilized evidence of its kind, the 60 scrape traces discovered by Shockley and his team suggest dino courtship behavior that would have involved males doing a little dance ritual to get females to agree to make a nest with them.
|
|
The fossilized remains of this dinosaur, now known as Murusraptor barrosaensis, was discovered back in 2000 at the Sierra Barrosa site in Argentina, but it has taken University of Alberta paleontologist Philip Currie and his team over a decade to perform their analysis.
|
|
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A fossilized skull of a small critter found in Utah underneath a dinosaur foot bone is providing insight into one of the most primitive mammalian groups and has scientists rethinking the timing of the break-up of Earth's bygone supercontinent Pangaea.
|
|
She continues to work with fossilized materials, including mammoth tooth root, which was not included in the New York ban, and dinosaur bone from the Colorado Plateau that is 156 million to 146 million years old, dating to the Late Jurassic period.
|
|
Four years earlier, in Hell Creek, he and a field assistant, Robert Feeney, found an odd, lumpy growth of fossilized bone that turned out to be two fused vertebrae from the tail of a hadrosaur, a duck-billed dinosaur from the Cretaceous period.
|
|
In ancient fossilized rock formations called stromatolites, found in the Dresser Formation fossil site of the Pilbara region of western Australia, researchers have finally detected traces of organic matter, and describe their findings in a new study published by the journal Geology.
|
|
For example, scientists used it to determine that fossilized human feces samples found in a cave in Oregon were at least 14,000 years old, suggesting that humans have lived in what is now the United States a lot longer than historians had thought.
|
|
Toward the piece's end—thousands of years into the future—the world's prison system falls, and AI mechs uncover and reanimate the fossilized remains of Sisa, the process of which ends up empowering an uprising of spider-humans imprisoned in the Earth's crust.
|
|
In a dress shirt, a black-and-white vest and black chinos, with his dark hair clipped short and parted boyishly on the side, he stood at the lectern, speaking at high speed and clicking through graphs and images of fossilized coral.
|
|
"What better way to attract the youth to our ideals than a rapper who subscribes to those?" said Mohammadreza Shafah, the head of the Soureh Film Club, a state-backed group that is seeking to inject life into Iran's fossilized official propaganda.
|
|
"Untangling the competing evolutionary forces that acted on now-fossilized bones towards bringing long-extinct animals back to life, so to speak, is a very rewarding occupation, especially when it considers the beautifully preserved fossils of the still-enigmatic Archaeopteryx," Voeten said.
|
|
"In other studies, apart from the possible contamination of samples with archaea from adjacent lands, these mineral particles may have been interpreted as fossilized cells, when in reality they form spontaneously in the brines, even though there is no life," López García said.
|
|
They're Calling This Adorable Creature The 'Platypus' Of DinosaursMeet Chilesaurus diegosuarezi, a newly described dinosaur discovered by a seven-year-old boy in…Read more ReadThe fossilized remains of Chilesaurus were only recently uncovered in southern Chile, so paleontologists don't know very much about it.
|
|
But by studying the varying shapes of hundreds of ancient, fossilized shark teeth, researchers found that Carcharhiniformes shark diversity—the biggest shark order today that includes hammerheads, tiger sharks, and more—exploded after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, whereas many lamniform sharks went extinct.
|
|
Researchers compared the bones of a fossilized rail from before the inundation event with bones from a rail afterward and found that the wing bone showed an advanced state of flightlessness and the ankle bones showed distinct properties that it was evolving toward flightlessness.
|
|
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - An iguana-like creature with a needle-sharp snout has been confirmed from a fossilized skeleton as a species of the marine reptile thalattosaur previously unknown to science that roamed the coast of what is now Alaska some 200 million years ago.
|
|
Fossilized ivory from woolly mammoths, discovered beneath melting ice caps in Siberia and Alaska, has been touted in recent years as an ethical alternative to elephant ivory, a way to deter the continuing illegal trade in tusks that is threatening an entire species with extinction.
|
|
The region has already produced fossilized remains of the massive cannibalistic Majungasaurus dinosaur, the flying raptor Rahonavis, and the ten-pound frog Beelzebufo, so there's no reason to expect it to stop churning out the skeletons of weirdos from the distant past anytime soon.
|
|
He goes from prehistory — 55-million-year-old fossilized jaws of tiny early horses — through the horse's place in the history of the Old West, to the present day, with cowboys celebrating a roundup's end with a round of strawberry daiquiris at a bar.
|
|
As they erode, which they constantly do, chunks of earth are sent tumbling onto the beach, especially when the weather is wet, and all manner of fossils are revealed — anything from tiny lumps of fossilized dinosaur excrement to the entire skeletons of massive prehistoric beasts.
|
|
Then, the gathering of materials: a turquoise wide-tooth comb and brush set, an assortment of candy-colored barrettes, and the jar of blue Ultra Sheen hair grease, a small cup of solidified ocean that bore the swirling imprint, like fossilized waves, of dipping fingers.
|
|
"Fossilized footprints are rarely found in archaeological sites, although are (known) from coastal areas where they are sometimes exposed by erosion," Duncan McLaren, lead study author and assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Victoria and the Hakai Institute, wrote in an email.
|
|
These fossilized organisms lived in a time of ecological upheaval and transition; defined both by the rapid, spectacular diversification of complex animal life known as the Cambrian explosion, as well as the first major die-off in known evolutionary history, the end-Ediacaran extinction event.
|
|