Newly Discovered: Animal Fossils
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Iguanodon Remains in Surrey.
"Splitting open the rock in the side of the slope, Jordan and his colleague Sarah Moore realised they were on to something big. “It had bone after bone after bone,” said Jordan. “We looked at each other and said, ‘We have got a dinosaur!".
"The discovery, he said, was startling. “It’s mega-rare. It’s been years since a near-complete skeleton has been found in the UK.”"
"Splitting open the rock in the side of the slope, Jordan and his colleague Sarah Moore realised they were on to something big. “It had bone after bone after bone,” said Jordan. “We looked at each other and said, ‘We have got a dinosaur!".
"The discovery, he said, was startling. “It’s mega-rare. It’s been years since a near-complete skeleton has been found in the UK.”"
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Not newly discovered [early 90s] but interesting nonetheless: Bone Stories - 15min iplayer prog about the largest Mammoth skeleton ever discovered in UK, West Runton, Norfolk
Some details:
Dated around 700,00 years old
Estimated to stand 4m tall
Tusks were 9ft long
In it's prime at 40 years old
Had a bad knee injury which probably played a part in it's demise
Scavenged by hyenas
Some details:
Dated around 700,00 years old
Estimated to stand 4m tall
Tusks were 9ft long
In it's prime at 40 years old
Had a bad knee injury which probably played a part in it's demise
Scavenged by hyenas
Palaeontologists in China have discovered a fossilized sea creature that they describe as "strange beyond measure", with long spines along its worm-like body and a shell that covers its head, like a helmet.
An artist's impression of Orthrozanclus elongata [Credit: Zhao, F. et al. Scientific Reports. 2017]
The 515-million-year-old specimen was unearthed last year by a fossil collector in the hills of the Maotianshan Shales, a palaeontological hotspot in Southwest China's Yunnan province.
The collector gave the fossil to Zhao Fangchen, a palaeobiologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who studied it, along with researchers from Durham University in the United Kingdom.
"The creature is like a mythical beast," Martin Smith, an assistant professor at Durham, told science news website Live Science.
Read more at https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blog...measure-sea-creature.html#spy98vr840bH26SY.99
An artist's impression of Orthrozanclus elongata [Credit: Zhao, F. et al. Scientific Reports. 2017]
The 515-million-year-old specimen was unearthed last year by a fossil collector in the hills of the Maotianshan Shales, a palaeontological hotspot in Southwest China's Yunnan province.
The collector gave the fossil to Zhao Fangchen, a palaeobiologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who studied it, along with researchers from Durham University in the United Kingdom.
"The creature is like a mythical beast," Martin Smith, an assistant professor at Durham, told science news website Live Science.
Read more at https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blog...measure-sea-creature.html#spy98vr840bH26SY.99
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New starfish species.
A 435-million-year-old fossil discovered in Connemara by an Irish geologist has been confirmed as a new species and the oldest of its type in Ireland.
The thumbnail-sized ophiuroid, or brittlestar, has also been named after the man who found it, Dr Eamon Doyle, in a rare honour for an Irish scientist.
The newly analysed brittlestar, a type of marine animal closely related to the starfish, is a species with super survival powers, Dr Doyle noted. Its relatives lived with little change through continents colliding, oceans opening and closing, and the extinction of the dinosaurs.
The specimen that he found in the Maam Valley scavenged for a living at a time when Ireland was farther south and split over two continents separated by the Iapetus Ocean, which predated the Atlantic.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ire...rittlestar-confirmed-as-new-species-1.3361416
A 435-million-year-old fossil discovered in Connemara by an Irish geologist has been confirmed as a new species and the oldest of its type in Ireland.
The thumbnail-sized ophiuroid, or brittlestar, has also been named after the man who found it, Dr Eamon Doyle, in a rare honour for an Irish scientist.
The newly analysed brittlestar, a type of marine animal closely related to the starfish, is a species with super survival powers, Dr Doyle noted. Its relatives lived with little change through continents colliding, oceans opening and closing, and the extinction of the dinosaurs.
The specimen that he found in the Maam Valley scavenged for a living at a time when Ireland was farther south and split over two continents separated by the Iapetus Ocean, which predated the Atlantic.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ire...rittlestar-confirmed-as-new-species-1.3361416
Filling in the saber-tooth gaps.
'Monstrous' new Russian saber-tooth fossils clarify early evolution of mammal lineage
Fossils representing two new species of saber-toothed prehistoric predators have been described by researchers from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (Raleigh, USA) and the Vyatka Paleontological Museum (Kirov, Russia). These new species improve the scientists' understanding of an important interval in the early evolution of mammals—a time, between mass extinctions, when the roles of certain carnivores changed drastically.
Living mammals are descended from a group of animals called therapsids, a diverse assemblage of "protomammals" that dominated terrestrial ecosystems in the Permian Period (~299-252 million years ago), millions of years before the earliest dinosaurs. These protomammals included tusked herbivores, burrowing insectivores, and saber-toothed predators. The vast majority of Permian therapsids have been found in the Karoo Basin of South Africa, and as a result, the South African record has played an outsized role influencing scientists' understanding of protomammal evolution. Because of this, therapsid fossils from outside of South Africa are extremely important, allowing scientists to discern whether observed events in the protomammal fossil record represent global or merely regional patterns.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-06-monstrous-russian-saber-tooth-fossils-early.html#jCp
'Monstrous' new Russian saber-tooth fossils clarify early evolution of mammal lineage
Fossils representing two new species of saber-toothed prehistoric predators have been described by researchers from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (Raleigh, USA) and the Vyatka Paleontological Museum (Kirov, Russia). These new species improve the scientists' understanding of an important interval in the early evolution of mammals—a time, between mass extinctions, when the roles of certain carnivores changed drastically.
Living mammals are descended from a group of animals called therapsids, a diverse assemblage of "protomammals" that dominated terrestrial ecosystems in the Permian Period (~299-252 million years ago), millions of years before the earliest dinosaurs. These protomammals included tusked herbivores, burrowing insectivores, and saber-toothed predators. The vast majority of Permian therapsids have been found in the Karoo Basin of South Africa, and as a result, the South African record has played an outsized role influencing scientists' understanding of protomammal evolution. Because of this, therapsid fossils from outside of South Africa are extremely important, allowing scientists to discern whether observed events in the protomammal fossil record represent global or merely regional patterns.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-06-monstrous-russian-saber-tooth-fossils-early.html#jCp
This cretaceous frog could of taken a bite out of you.
https://www.earthtouchnews.com/disc...cked-the-bite-force-to-munch-small-dinosaurs/
https://www.earthtouchnews.com/disc...cked-the-bite-force-to-munch-small-dinosaurs/
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A 99 million year old baby snake has been discovered preserved in amber in Myanmar
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44872148
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44872148
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OK, not a fossil, but a creature that is 40,000 years old has been brought back to life (reminds me of 'The Thing'):
https://gizmodo.com/russian-scientists-claim-to-have-resurrected-40-000-yea-1827923906
Rest of article at link.
https://gizmodo.com/russian-scientists-claim-to-have-resurrected-40-000-yea-1827923906
Rest of article at link.
New Sauropod species found in Argentina
The area in which the fossils were found is unusual for dinosaurs as it would have been a desert with sporadic lakes in that era.
The area in which the fossils were found is unusual for dinosaurs as it would have been a desert with sporadic lakes in that era.
'Gigantic mammal 'cousin' discovered'
Wondered if this might be if interest?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181123134400.htm
Wondered if this might be if interest?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181123134400.htm
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Monster fossil worm uncovered https://www.geologyin.com/2017/02/s..._rGLW28tE8L_obf6sqlogaA5taGlNbmyCdLtSbW570aco
