Science and art are often thought of as opposites, but fossil preparation does involve creativity ... In 2006, Scott Moore-Fay, our fossil preparator from 2004 to 2010, worked on the restoration of a ...

A newly-described fossil skull has given paleontologists their best look yet at a hyaenodont with a meat-cleaving bite. Found in the 30 million-year-old rock of Egypt’s Fayum Basin, the ...

The only other place that a similar skull fossil has been found is in the U.S. The Geiseltal Saxony-Anhalt is located south-west of Halle and was a lignite mining area until 1993. Numerous ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

Kermitops is notable for more than just its namesake puppet persona. The early fossil record of amphibians and their ancestors is largely fragmentary, which makes it difficult to understand how ...

Caption 3D reconstruction of the fossil skull of the sub-adult early Homo from the Dmanisi site in Georgia. The green, orange and red colors represent the preserved teeth (imaged respectively with ...

Scientists on Thursday described the fossilised skull of a creature called Kermitops ... the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. The fossil was collected in 1984 near Lake Kemp in Texas ...

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The ...

The incomplete skull — which includes a section of the ... New research published in the journal Nature on Wednesday reveals the fossil is between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years old.

Now, an international team of paleontologists has found a new piece of the puzzle — a nearly complete skull of a previously ... forest,” Ashqar said. The fossil provides a rare glimpse into ...

In the fossil-rich sands of the Faiyum Oasis in Egypt ... predators that roamed the Earth roughly 30 million years ago. The skull dates back to the Paleogene Period, a time that followed the ...

We spoke to Jack Wonfor from Wight Coast Fossils on the Isle of Wight to find out everything you need to know as a first-time fossil hunter on the island ... One of Jack’s most exciting finds, for ...