Category: Archaeologists

It looks almost too perfect to be real. Argentine paleontologists have uncovered a 70-million-year-old dinosaur egg so remarkably preserved that it appears almost like a modern hard-boiled egg — a discovery researchers say was a spectacular and extremely rare surprise. The fossil was found during an excavation in Patagonia, where dinosaur remains have been discovered…

For 66 million years, something extraordinary remained hidden beneath the rugged landscape of North Dakota — until a schoolteacher helped lead researchers straight to it. Archaeologists have uncovered four enormous three-toed footprints believed to belong to a Tyrannosaurus rex, creating what researchers describe as an incredibly rare glimpse into how the legendary predator actually moved.…

A terrifying predator that once ruled the ancient seas has emerged from the Texas earth — and its enormous fossilized remains reveal just how monstrous life could become millions of years ago. Paleontologists from the Perot Museum of Nature and Science recently unearthed the fossil of a 30-foot-long mosasaur near the North Sulphur River in…

A remarkable discovery in southern France has uncovered what could be one of Europe’s most extraordinary dinosaur nesting grounds — with hundreds of fossilized eggs emerging from the ground after being buried for around 72 million years. The eggs were discovered at the Mèze fossil site in the Hérault region following months of painstaking excavation.…

A 12-million-year-old crocodile fossil has emerged from one of Peru’s most famous fossil-rich deserts — and scientists say the remarkably preserved specimen offers a rare glimpse into a predator that once prowled ancient coastal waters. The young marine crocodile was discovered in late 2023 in Peru’s Ocucaje Desert, around 350 kilometres south of Lima. Measuring…

It was a violent encounter frozen in time — and it happened 76 million years ago. \ Paleontologists have uncovered the fossilized neck bone of a young pterosaur bearing a tiny but unmistakable tooth mark, offering a rare glimpse into the brutal predator-prey battles that unfolded during the Cretaceous Period. The fossil was discovered in…

Four remarkably preserved Roman swords “in almost mint condition” — with their wooden and leather hilts and steel blades still intact after 1,900 years — have been discovered inside a remote cave near the Dead Sea. The trove of ancient artifacts – four swords and the head of a javelin known as a “pilum” —…

An apex predator that once roamed the Earth around 230 million years ago had a surprisingly weak bite for its size, researchers have found. A team of paleontologists re-created the original skull anatomy of a reptile from the Late Triassic period, known as Saurosuchus, for a study published in the journal The Anatomical Record. Saurosuchus…

In the spring of 1923, a group of Museum researchers who had recently embarked on the second year of the Central Asiatic Expeditions made camp at Irdin Manha—the Valley of the Jewels—in Inner Mongolia. Named for the brilliantly polished pebbles of agate, chalcedony, jasper, quartz, and other minerals found there, Irdin Manha immediately proved a rich trove of…

The long-necked marine reptiles known as plesiosaurs are one of the icons of the dinosaur age. But all the fossil skeletons found so far come from the Jurassic period. Now we’ve found a nearly complete fossil from the earlier Triassic period. It is the oldest plesiosaur ever found. The fossil shows that, as predicted, plesiosaurs…