Category: Archaeologists

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…

A research project undertaken by the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and the Institute of Geoscience (IGEO, CSIC-UCM) identified various marine worms from the Paleozoic era (Ordovician period) 455 million years ago at the Tafilalt Biota site in Morocco. They correspond to the new genus and species Anguiscolex africanus, and the new species Wronascolex superstes.…

Two paleontologists and an archeologist plaster a mysticete whale skeleton recently unearthed at a Scotts Valley construction site in preparation to move the bone The past collided with the present in Scotts Valley when scientists discovered a whale fossil, as old as 4 million years, at a housing development site off Santas Village Road. The…

A giant ‘sea dragon’ discovered in the Midlands has been hailed as one of the greatest finds in British fossil history. The ichthyosaur, spotted at the bottom of the Rutland Water, is the largest and most complete skeleton found in the UK, at 32 feet (10 metres) in length, with a skull weighing a ton.…

About 131 million years ago, an 11-foot-long ichthyosaur slammed snout first into the seafloor and was rapidly buried by sediments—a sequence of events that helped preserve not only her skeleton, but that of her unborn baby, along with the remains of her last meal. These details are part of a new study from an international…

Paleontologists have made a stunning discovery on the Spanish island of Tenerife: a beautifully preserved, still articulated skeleton of a lizard from 700,000 years ago. Researchers believe that the specimen might be an example of Gallotia goliath, an extinct species of giant lizard species that lived long before humans reached the Canary Islands. Retired botanist…

Paleontologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a pterosaur from 76 million years ago—bearing a bite mark from an ancient relative of the crocodile. The flying reptile, represented by a vertebra from the neck, was found in Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada, in July 2023. The revelation of a 0.16-inch-wide tooth mark on the…