If you've ever seen a giant river otter in person,... ...o. Scientists working in China recently found the fossils of the previously unknown species that would have... ...dge about otter evolution as before that the only fossils scientists had to go by were a few shattered teet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/01/24/Six-Million-Years-Ago-There-Were-Otters-the-Size-of-Wolves/[http://youtu.be/jBuc8VnZShY]YouTube LinkEngland's... ...gis, an area known for its wealth of Jurassic-era fossils . Anning risked her life to recover fossils , as the area was suceptible to landslides, partic... ...he winter months. The landslides would expose new fossils , b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/09/21/Mary-Anning-The-Greatest-Fossilist-in-the-World/As we mentioned last week, scientists have uncovered bones in Argentina of what they believe to be the largest dinosaur ever discovered. They've named it the Dreadnoughtus after HMS Dreadnought, a revolutionary battleshi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/09/10/How-Big-Was-the-Biggest-Dinosaur-Ever/This is coprolite--fossilized excrement. It dates back to between the Oligocene and Minocene Epochs, which makes it somewhere around 5.3 to 33.9 million years old. The poop was found in Lewis County, Washington State. Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/07/17/The-Longest-Known-Fossilized-Dinosaur-Poop/Are dinosaur fossils a national resource for research and education, o... ...rt of the problem is the desirability of dinosaur fossils , which fuels a black market in stolen or smuggled... ...which fuels a black market in stolen or smuggled fossils . There are those who belie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/24/Will-the-Private-Market-for-Dinosaur-Bones-Destroy-Us-All/[http://youtu.be/Okmj0xxpqxM] (YouTube link)As amazing as the different species of earth are, there were so many more that are no longer with us. In some cases, that’s fortunate for us, because many were huge and p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/19/21-Mind-Blowing-Now-Extinct-Lifeforms/(Photo: Opal Auctions)This beautiful fossil is a p... ...New South Wales, Australia. Many plant and animal fossils
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/06/Opalized-Pine-Cone/Four years ago, nine-year old Daisy Morris found a strange object on the beach on the Isle of Wight off the southern coast of Britain. It was the fossilized pelvic girdle of a previously unknown species of flying reptile...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/21/Newly-Identified-Dinosaur-Species-Named-after-the-Little-Girl-Who-Discovered-It/Paleontologists in China have discovered ancient a... ...s a team of Chinese scientists studying feathered fossils .That design didn't seem to work out too well for... ...g, or catching prey is handy. Read more about the fossils at the Los Angeles Times. Link -via The Week (Im...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/18/Fossil-Birds-with-Four-Wings/It was hard to determine which of Peter McFarlane's pieces to feature because his entire gallery is filled with ingenious works like these. His particularly striking circuit board fossil sculptures are a commentary on "o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/09/Circuit-Board-Fossils-and-Other-Amazing-Sculptures-by-Peter-McFarlane/
