Tag: Fossil
Historic fossils find new life telling the story of ancient proteins
The first fossil skull of Castoroides ohioensis found in 1845 alongside the skull of a modern beaver. Credit: New York State Museum
A few snippets...
Remains of bizarre group of extinct snail-eating Australian marsupials discovered
These are maxilla of the young malleodectid -- a snail-eating marsupial -- found in the fossil cave deposit at Riversleigh. Because this is a...
‘Hammerhead’ creature was world’s first plant-eating marine reptile
A fossil of Atopodenatus unicus is alongside a reconstruction showing what it would have looked like in life.Credit: © Nick Fraser
In 2014, scientists discovered...
Wealth of unsuspected new microbes expands tree of life
This is a new and expanded view of the tree of life, with clusters of bacteria (left), uncultivable bacteria called 'candidate phyla radiation' (center,...
