Topic: Fossils
New Pterosaur Species Discovered in Japan
Pterosaurs were remarkable flying reptiles that roamed the Earth from 210 to 65 million years ago. They predated birds and bats as the first flying vertebrates. Recent discoveries...
Hibbertopterus lamsdelli: New species of Giant Sea Scorpion
Aquatic arthropods are invertebrates living in water with segmented bodies. They are extinct. A new species of aquatic arthropod was found in New Mexico in unearthed fossils. The...
Confuciusornis shifan
The fossil remains of a 119 million-year-old beaked bird were recently discovered in China. About Confuciusornis shifan Confuciusornis shifan lived during the Early Cretaceous Period, around 119 million...
Two new Fossil Flowers in Myanmar
The palaeontologists recently discovered two fossil flowers in Myanmar. The flowers lived by the end of Cretaceous period. They are some 100 million years old. The two flowers...
Kyhytysuka sachicarum: New Marine Reptile Discovered
Kyhytysuka sachicarum is a new marine reptile species discovered by an international team of researchers. It is an extinct species. It was discovered from fossils found in central...Farzad-B Gas Field
Farzad-B Gas Field is an off-shore natural gas field that is situated 20kms away from Farsi Island in Iran. This gas field was discovered in 2008 by a...
Talkative Dinosaur found in Mexico
The Palaeontologists recently identified a new species of dinosaur called the Talkative Dinosaur. It was identified in the northern Mexico. The research is being conducted by the National...
Oldest Human burial in Africa discovered at Panga ya Saidi cave
The scientists have found the oldest human burial in Africa. The site is 78,000 years old. The cave site was discovered near Kenyan coast. The site is called...
Yamatosaurus izanagii: New species of duck-billed dinosaur
An international team of Palaeontologists (who studies fossils) has identified a new genus and species of hadrosaur. Hadrosaur is also called duck-billed dinosaur. The species has been named...
Meghalaya: 100 million-year-old bones of Sauropods discovered
The researchers in the Geological Survey of India recently found fossil bone fragments of Sauropod dinosaurs. They were 100 million years old. These dinosaur bones were found in...
Dracopristis hoffmanorum: Godzilla shark discovered in New Mexico
In 2013, Jonh Paul Hodnett, a graduate student unearthed fossil of a shark at Albuquerque, New Mexico. It turns out that, it is a fossil of a new...
