Category: Archaeologists

Perhaps it was one of those eureka moments, when the scientists realized they had discovered a new dinosaur with mouth parts designed to vacuum up food. The 110 million-year-old plant eater, discovered in the Sahara Desert, was to be unveiled Thursday by the National Geographic Society. Discoverer Paul Sereno named the elephant-sized animal Nigersaurus taqueti,…

Perfectly preserved head of Ice Age wolf found in SiberiaScientists have found the furry head of an Ice Age wolf perfectly preserved in the Siberian permafrost. Moscow — A Russian scientific institute says an almost perfectly preserved head of a 32,000-year-old wolf was found in Siberia, so complete that it is still covered with fur…

The resting place of ancient armadillos that roamed the earth some 20,000 years ago has been discovered in Argentina. A farmer stumbled upon the graveyard containing fossilized shells of four massive Glyptodonts, with the largest being the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. The resting place of ancient armadillos that roamed the earth some 20,000 years…

An intact cooyoo fish fossil, about 1.6 metres long, has been discovered in Richmond. (Supplied: Kronosaurus Korner) Experts believe it is one Australia’s most intact fossils of the Cooyoo australis fish — a large carnivore that once swam Queensland’s inland Eromanga Sea. The rare find was stumbled upon by a Northern Territory couple who had been…

The biggest and most complete dinosaur ever found in Italy is among the remains of up to 11 such creatures uncovered by paleontologists. Fossilised skeletons belonging to the species Tethyshadros insularis were discovered at a site called Villaggio del Pescatore near Trieste. Researchers said the dinosaur lived on an island of the European archipelago in the Tethys…

A huge sauropod dinosaur dubbed the ‘southern titan’ that was as long as a basketball court roamed Australia 96 million years ago, a study has reported. Queensland Museum and Eromanga Natural History Museum experts described the new species, named ‘Australotitan cooperensis’, which was unearthed in 2007. A huge sauropod dinosaur dubbed the ‘southern titan’ that…

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This is the first complete adult wolf dating to the late Pleistocene (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago) ever discovered, according to a translated statement from the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, where the necropsy was performed.…

Ancient creatures resembling stout-necked Loch Ness Monsters apparently developed arthritis in their monster jaws, revealing that even such lethal killers could suffer from and eventually succumb to diseases of old age, researchers find. “This pliosaur, like many of its relatives, was truly huge,” researcher Michael Benton, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Bristol in…

Nate Murphy is a high-profile fossil hunter and former curator of palaeontology at the Phillips County Museum in Malta, US. In 2001, he uncovered a mummified dinosaur while excavating in northeastern Montana. Mr Murphy, along with a team of scientists, slowly worked away at the rock to remove the prehistoric creature. The 59-year-old revealed during Amazon Prime’s “Secrets of the Dinosaur Mummy” how…

There are stories in scat, and this piece of poo tells a tale of a giant shark’s attempt to eat it. Professional diver Mark Stitzer was diving near Charleston, South Carolina looking for megalodon teeth in October when he found the tooth of Carcharocles angustidens, a giant shark related to the famous C. megalodon. This…