Category: Archaeologists

Woolly mammoths could be brought back from extinction after a preserved body of one of the ancient animals was found frozen in the snowy wastes of Siberia, scientists hope. The mammoth, which took its last steps around 40,000 years ago, is in such good condition that biologists believe they may be able to clone the…

A rare fossil of a prehistoric monster-fish’s spiral of chainsaw-like teeth has been found in Russia. The scary Helicoprion was an extinct ancestor of the modern-day ghost shark or ratfish with an impressive set of nashers – that lived millions of years before the dinosaurs. Discovered in an open coal mine in Volgograd, southern Russia,…

‘Dino skin is more diverse than previously thought,’ say researchers, with South American predator displaying coat made of scales, studs and thorns Scientists have analysed the well-preserved skin of one of the “strangest carnivorous dinosaurs ever discovered” in unprecedented detail and found that its complex coat was made up of different patterns of scales and…

Nearly half a billion years ago, marine arthropods called trilobites lined up single-file before meeting a tragic end. Lines of the Ampyx priscus trilobite from a site near Zagora, Morocco that dates back 480 million years. From flocks of birds to schools of fish, modern species across the animal kingdom enjoy each other’s company—so much…

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…