Fossil

Six-year-old stumbles on coral fossil from million of years ago in England garden

The fossil's markings place it as existing during the Paleozoic era, between 500 and 251 million years ago.

Remains of massive plant-eating lizard in Argentina likely the largest, oldest ever found

Titanosaurs, thought to have been among the largest animals to walk the Earth, may have lived longer ago than previously thought.

Unlikely fossil dug up in Bhimbetka ties together evolution of modern life in India, Australia

The creatures had squishy bodies that have long since decayed away, and they lack bones or shells that would remain fossilised.

Dogs migrated to America along with early human settlers 10,000 years ago

The femur of a dog showed that it shared a genetic lineage with American dogs that lived before the arrival of European breeds.

Living Fossil: African coelacanth is not 65 mn years-old as evolution is evident in its genes

The fish went on to earn the moniker 'living fossil' because of its anatomy that resembled fossilised records.

Starfish: Rare fossil helps answer the mystery of how they evolved arms

Starfish and their close relatives the brittle stars belong to a group called the echinoderms that have spiny skins.

Human, animal footprints dating back 1,20,000 years found in Saudi Arabia's Nefud Desert

The fossils were first recorded for Homo sapiens outside of Africa between roughly 210 and 180 thousand years in southern Greece and the Levant.

Well-preserved fossil of a woolly mammoth has been discovered in a Siberian lake

The faeces of the mammoth will contain a lot of information about the 'mammoth's diet as well as the pollen of ancient plants and a lot more'.

Elephant fossil between 5 to 8 million years old found in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur, says division's chief forest conservator

A fossil of an elephant was discovered from the Siwalik sediments exposed in the vicinity of Badshahi Bagh area in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur

A 425 million years old millipede fossil is the oldest known specimen of bugs on Earth

Studying the millipede revealed that “a rapid radiative evolution” helped these organisms to come out of aquatic ecosystems and start living in “complex forest grade communities” in just 40 million years.