Back in 1948, when he was just a boy, Beattie was vacationing with his family in New South Wales when he came upon a shell ...
A new extinct flying reptile species has been discovered in fossilized dinosaur vomit. Known as "regurgitalite," the remains ...
The findings in Spitsbergen demonstrate that marine ecosystems rebounded rapidly after the end-Permian mass extinction, ...
The Royal B.C. Museum is hosting a travelling fossil exhibition featuring fossils from natural history museums across the country. The Victoria museum's contribution is teeth from Cornwallius ...
Researchers have uncovered dozens of long-misidentified coelacanth fossils in British museums, some overlooked for more than a century. The study reveals that these ancient “living fossils” thrived in ...
Ireland is an unlikely candidate for dinosaur fossils but two were found on Islandmagee beach, two decades apart.
On Nov. 14, the Bruce Dice Mineralogical Museum unveiled an ammolite fossil, as well as a painting by student Elizabeth Ayers ...
The cold winter temperatures were no deterrent for amateur fossil hunters Jon Ganshorn, his six-year-old daughter Lily and the other members of the Dino Hunter Gang. After uncovering a treasure trove ...
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An 82-Year-Old Fossil Hunter Found a 150-Million-Year-Old Insect That May Redraw the Evolutionary Map
His fossils, collected over a decade at a Jurassic site in New South Wales, have revealed a new species of non-biting midge.
Paleontologists have discovered the fossil bones of Tenontosaurus sp. -- an Early Cretaceous ornithopod dinosaur from North ...
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This Amateur Fossil Hunter Discovered a 151-Million-Year-Old Insect—and It’s a New Species
Amateur fossil hunter Robert Beattie has been searching for remnants of the past ever since he was a child. Now, some of his ...
This story was originally published on Jan. 19, 2022. Lily Ganshorn stood proud as she brushed her hand across an ancient ammonite fossil on display in her family's garage in Martensville, Sask. "I'm ...
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