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A perfectly preserved leg of a Dinosaur, which even includes the skin of the animal, was found at the Tanis fossil site in North Dakota, BBC reported.
The creature's large head was covered by a shield-like carapace whose shape reminded the scientists of the Millennium Falcon spaceship of 'Star Wars' fame.
Scientists excavated bones from at least eight to 10 Lingwulong individuals, the largest of which was about 57 feet (17.5 meters) long.
An international team led by Chinese scientists has revealed the wing colour of a 200 million-year-old insect via fossil scales.
The first fossil of an ancient human found in the Arabian Peninsula could challenge a widely accepted theory of how modern humans migrated out of Africa, a study has shown.
An extinct species of monitor lizard had four eyes, a first among known jawed vertebrates, a fossil study has found.
The fossil is made up of a nearly complete skeleton and would have weighed just three ounces when it was alive.
The remains include an early form of the eye seen in many of today's animals, including crabs, bees and dragonflies, researchers said.
The newly described fossils were recovered from a commercial quarry near the village of Shanghuang in the southern Jiangsu province of China, about 100 miles west of Shanghai.
Fossil records of ichthyosaurs, which means 'fish lizards' in Greek, have been found in North American and Europe previously.
The site is believed to be the largest of its kind in the world.
A boy's misstep on a family hike in New Mexico has given the world a prehistoric wonder.
The fossil was unearthed at the paleontological site of Imarrucos, northwest of Titicaca, the world's highest navigable lake, said the ministry.
Selam, which means "peace" in the Ethiopian Amharic language, was an early human relative from the species Australopithecus afarensis -- the same species as the famous Lucy skeleton.
The cranium was found in 2014. Since the sediments containing the cranium at the Aroeira site were firmly cemented, the cranium was removed from the site in a large, solid block.
The British museum's Professor Paul Barrett says the fossil's "lasting historical legacy" is that it establishes birds as dinosaurs.
The researchers from Pennsylvania State University in the US examined two fossil lantern fruit collected in an area in Argentina that was temperate rainforest when the plants grew, 52 million years ago.
Have you ever thought, why birds are toothless? Well, researchers have discovered a dinosaur species that shed its "milk teeth" but did not replace them, a finding that not only changes its anatomy. And this also explains why birds have beaks and not teeth.
The ancient life forms were found fossilised in two separate locations in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa.
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