If you discovered a new species of prehistoric art... ...discovered a new species of prehistoric arthropod fossil with scissor-like appendages, what you you name i... ...hen I first saw the pair of isolated claws in the fossil records of this species I could not help but thin... ...r David Legg, who conducted...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/19/Cambrian-Fossil-With-Scissor-Like-Claws-Is-Named-For-Johnny-Depp/
Photo: Brett Eloff/Lee R. Berger/Univers... ..., South Africa, when he stumbled upon a fossilized bone. He ran to his dad, paleoanthropol... ...arch papers on the two-million-year-old fossils were published in this week's edition of Science:...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/14/Prehistoric-Human-Ancestor-that-Walked-like-a-Chimp-and-Smiled-Like-a-Man/
Photo: Carl Bento/Australian Museum... ...Bento/Australian Museum Surely you've seen fossils in museums, but what about this: opalized... ...this: opalized dinosaur tooth. Opalized fossils occur when silica settled into cracks i...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/28/Opalized-Dinosaur-Tooth/
A fossil uncovered in Africa over 70 years ago has led to... ...aurus parringtoni. In the 1930s, Rex Carringon, a fossil hunter from Cambridge, first made the find in sou... ...until 1975 that one of his students mentioned the fossil fossilized...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/19/Fossils-of-the-Earliest-Dinosaur/
Scientists knew something was funny about the Bron... ...s knew something was funny about the Brontosaurus fossil reconstruction as far back as 1903, and have been... ...outdo the other.Cutting corners led to a "hybrid" fossil that contained the body of an Apatosaurus and the...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/10/Forget-Extinct-The-Brontosaurus-Never-Even-Existed/
Photo: Xiaoya Ma My, what large fossilized brain you've got! Nicholas Strausfeld of the Univ... ...of Arizona and colleagues were studying fossils from China's Yunnan province when they...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/11/Oldest-Arthropod-Brain-is-Surprisingly-Complex/
Scientists have found the fossil of a squirrel-tailed dinosaur with feathers that... ...sely related to coelurosaurs, the new fossil suggests feathered dinosaurs were the norm, not t...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/04/squirrel-tailed-dinosaur-with-feathers/
The fossil remains of a 60-million-year-old turtle called Ca...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/22/ancient-giant-turtle/
It looks like an insignificant s... ...tavia antiqua, a microscopic, sponge-like African fossil that could be the earliest known animal... ...s tiny as it may be important. "The fossils are small, about the size of a grain of sand,...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/11/meet-otavia-antiqua-possibly-the-ancestor-of-all-animals/
From the look of the fossilized skull, you'd think this was a Smilodon, a saberto...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/31/thylacosmilus/
