Underwater fossil bed discovered by collectors preserves rare slice of Florida's past
About half a million years ago, several horses, sloths and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in Florida's Big Bend region and ...
Technofossils: how the pollution of today will become the fossils of the far future
It’s fun to conceptualise like this, and set the human story within the grand perspective of Earth’s history. But there’s a ...
Jurassic fossil from China rewrites history of bird evolution
Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...
How the pollution of today will become the ‘technofossils’ of the far future
It’s fun to conceptualise like this, and set the human story within the grand perspective of Earth’s history. But there’s a ...
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Quail-sized feathered dinosaur may be the earliest known bird
Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...
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Bug of the Year 2025 – Expert Reaction
Bat hitchiking, mealybug milking, and defensive bleeding - the creepiest crawlies and freakiest fliers of Aotearoa are duking it out in an annual popularity contest. Voting for the New Zealand Bug of ...