New research shows that the 115-million-year-old fossil found during a police raid in Santos Harbor, in the state of Sao Paulo in Brazil in 2013, is a well-preserved, about 90% complete petrosor / big-headed pterosaurs. Studies indicate that they belonged to the group of toothless reptiles / tapejaridae that lived 144 and 100 million years…
The new species was found in the rocks of the western desert of Egypt and was once waterlogged. Researchers at the Center for Vertebrate Paleontology at the University of Mansoura have discovered that this is a new species. The name given to this new species is phiomicetus Anubis, the Egyptian goddess of death. It is…
The footprints of a saropod dinosaur discovered by a team of paleontologists from Burgos are named after Spanish football magician Andrs Iniesta. These are known as ‘Iniestapodus’ / The footprints of the dinosaur ‘Iniestapodus’. It has a long tail and neck, clawed feet, and is also a dinosaur reptile. At the beginning of the Cretaceous,…
Paleontologists have discovered three new mammal species fossils from an ancient riverbed in southern Wyoming. / discovered three new fossil mammal species /. The new species of mammals lived thousands of years after the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. These three new mammal species are the ancestors of the hoofed animals found…
Chinese paleontologists have discovered two new dinosaur species. The 130 million year old dinosaur species was identified from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwest China. Two new species have been confirmed from studies and restoration of three fossil samples collected from Hami. The visible part of the fossil was / exposed / in poor…
which was spread over the earth 432 million years ago, is on display at an exhibition in Tokyo. A sample of the fossil Cooksonia barrandei is on display in Tokyo. It is also the earliest known fossil of a terrestrial plant. Its entire structure is made of fossil wood. It was discovered in the nineteenth…
Paleontologists from Australia have found fossils of a dragon-like flying reptile that lived during the dinosaur era. Flying reptiles that look like dragons are commonly seen between 245 and 66 million years ago. Paleontologists at the University of Queensland have discovered fossils of flying reptiles. This reptile is also known as “Thapunngaka shawi”. Belongs to…
Paleontologists find fossil of giant vampire bat in Argentina Researchers have found fossil jaw fossils of the endangered Desmodus Draculae. Paleontologists estimate that the newly discovered fossil of Desmodus Draculae is about 100,000 years old / late pleistocene epoch /. The fossil was obtained from a paleontological site near the southeastern Buenos Aires, Argentina. The…
Paleontologists have found fossil remains of a jurrassic crocodile species / fossil that lived 148 million years ago in Chile. Paleontologists say the fossil remains found in the Patagonian Mountains of southern Chile belong to a new genus of small- sized mesoeucrocodylian species. These ancient crocodiles lived with the giant Titanosaurs and other Sauropod dinosaurs….
