Category: Archaeologists

A woolly mammoth that died nearly 39,000 years ago has been preserved so remarkably well that scientists were able to recover blood and muscle samples from her ancient body. The female mammoth, named Yuka, was discovered frozen in ice on an island near Siberia after becoming trapped in the frozen ground. Her body was found…

A baby woolly mammoth that died more than 30,000 years ago has been unearthed from the frozen ground of Canada’s Yukon — and its body is so remarkably preserved that scientists can still see its hair, skin and tiny toenails. Miners excavating permafrost in the Klondike gold fields made the extraordinary discovery at Eureka Creek,…

A remarkably preserved teenage Tyrannosaurus rex that died around 66.5 million years ago is giving scientists a rare glimpse into what the fearsome predator looked like before reaching adulthood. The fossil was discovered in North Dakota’s famous Hell Creek Formation by an unlikely team — three children and their father. What they found would eventually…

A remarkably complete young Tyrannosaurus rex discovered in Montana could help solve one of paleontology’s most intriguing mysteries: what did the world’s most famous predator look like before it became a giant? The dinosaur died around 66.5 million years ago, near the end of the Cretaceous Period. Its remains were discovered by researchers from the…

A fossilized giant amphibian that lived 240 million years ago has been hiding in an extraordinarily unlikely place — inside rocks intended to build a garden retaining wall. The remarkable fossil was discovered in the 1990s by a retired chicken farmer, who spotted it among rocks taken from a nearby quarry. The stones were destined…

A fossilized tooth belonging to one of the most terrifying predators ever to roam the oceans has been discovered off the Florida coast — and it carries a bizarre secret. Divers searching for ancient shark teeth near Venice, Florida, uncovered a finger-length megalodon tooth covered in prominent bite marks. The remarkable fossil was found by…

A tiny reptile that prowled across southern Brazil 237 million years ago could hold clues to one of the biggest mysteries in prehistoric history: how dinosaurs eventually came to dominate the planet. Scientists have identified the fossil as a previously unknown species named Gondwanax paraisensis, an ancient four-legged reptile that was roughly the size of…

A remarkable fossil has captured a prehistoric battle frozen in time — a badger-like mammal locked in a deadly struggle with a dinosaur roughly 125 million years ago. The extraordinary specimen shows Repenomamus robustus, one of the largest mammals known to have lived during the Cretaceous, apparently attacking a young Psittacosaurus, a plant-eating dinosaur roughly…

A tiny snake fossil unearthed from a German quarry has revealed a startling chapter in the history of one of the world’s most famous predators. Scientists have identified what they believe is the world’s earliest known python, a previously unknown species that slithered through Europe around 47 million years ago. Named Messelopython freyi, the ancient…

A dinosaur that lived more than 220 million years ago endured a devastating bone infection that may have left one of its arms completely useless, scientists have discovered. The nearly 26-foot-long Plateosaurus was found in 2018 in Switzerland’s Frick Valley, preserved in the remains of an ancient mud trap. But hidden inside its bones was…