Saturday 3 December, 2022
The findings may shed light on a mystery that has long intrigued scientists on when people first arrived in the Americas.
If verified, the fossils may pre-date the next-oldest undisputed sponge fossils by around 350 million years.
The 10mm-long bones are believed to come from a small amphibian that would have been an ancestor to the first lizards.
Scientists say the creature measured about 13 feet in length and could likely walk and swim.
The great naturalist could not explain an apparent gap in animal evolution.
Discovery of fossils from this age, the Middle Jurassic, has been limited to a handful of sites around the world to date.
Young male Ice Age mammoths likely roamed alone and got themselves into risky situations.
The new exhibit features ‘Stan’ a life-sized replica fossil skeleton of a male adult tyrannosaurus rex.
The shark once hunted in the ancient seas at a time when Ireland was located close to the equator.
Earth is thought to be about 4.57 billion years old.
The man was sentenced, despite his work in helping Mongolia open its first dinosaur museum.
The 17 metre Diplodocus skeleton named ‘Misty’ is expected to sell at auction for €720,000.
The bones were discovered by construction workers earlier today.
An unknown species was recently discovered in the UK, but Irish waters once had crocodiles and beasts of all sorts.
Bones of the ‘Kairuku’, extinct for about 26 million years, were discovered in New Zealand 35 years ago.
Glass eyes, 45-million-year-old fossils and Winston Churchill’s half-smoked cigar among the items sold at annual curios auction.
The discovery of perfectly preserved insects in India has challenged the assumption that the country was an isolated island continent about 52 million years ago.
A glacial deposit found in Australia shows that life is at least 70 million years older than we thought.
