Bethany Mantle spent her childhood living in a cave underground to escape the the scorching heat. Then she uncovered a whole ...

Jewelry makers have been showcasing the marine mollusk, and vintage sellers say they can’t keep them in stock.

Professor Michael Archer from UNSW emphasizes that studies on opalized fossils from Lightning Ridge could provide more information about the early history of monotremes. Scientists hope to ...

But unfortunately, the fossil record of platypus and echidna ancestors is sparse, and it’s not possible yet to say exactly when this happened. “This is one of the reasons why we’re increasing our ...

Krystyna Pyszkova of Czech Republic, crowns her successor Opal Suchata of Thailand after she who won the 72nd Miss World pageant in Hyderabad, India, Saturday, May 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.) ...

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For decades, an "extremely rare" fossil sat unidentified in Japan's Museum of Unique Insect Fossils. Discovered in 1988 in Hyogo Prefecture, the imprint of a large butterfly wing and body is now ...

A prehistoric sea monster never-before-known to man was hunting prey in North America 85 million years ago, fossils found decades ago in Canada reveal. The first set of fossils, found in 1988 ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A nearly complete fossil of Eoplatypleura messelensis, the earliest known Cicadinae and first true cicada from the Messel Pit, dates to 47 million years ago ...

The superpredator’s teeth — abundant in the fossil record — are what McCormack and his colleagues used to conduct a geochemical analysis, unlocking fresh clues that could challenge megalodon ...