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At more than 110 million years old, a fossil excavated in Brazil is the oldest undisputed ant fossil ever discovered ... was similar to one species we found in Burmese amber,” he says.
While in search of dinosaur fossils, a team of Argentine and Chinese scientists in Argentina found something else ...
A tadpole fossil found in Argentina, dating back at least 161 million years, is the oldest that has ever been discovered. The fossil was found back in January 2020, with news of the discovery ...
A newly discovered frog fossil represents the oldest tadpole ever found, and it looks remarkably like the tadpoles you’re probably familiar with except for one thing—it was a giant.
A newly discovered "hell ant" fossil may be the oldest ant ever found, scientists say. This fossilized insect was unearthed in what is now northeastern Brazil and lived around 113 million years ...
The oldest tadpole ever found is 161 million years old ... Well-preserved tadpole fossils like this one, found in Argentina, are especially hard to come by. Tadpoles are delicate creatures.
A fossil unearthed in Canada is the oldest preserved adult jellyfish found, dating from over 500 million years ago. During the 1980s and 1990s, scientists uncovered exceptionally preserved remains ...
In a cave in northern Spain, researchers have discovered pieces of a fossilized face belonging to an ancient human ancestor — the oldest human fossil ever found in Western Europe. The remains ...
But Dr. Caron and other scientists recently described a cache of jellyfish fossils from the Cambrian period that found an improbable ... old animals are among the oldest swimming jellyfish known ...
Found in Australia, this 558-million-year-old fossil is one of the oldest known animal fossils, belonging to a flatworm-like creature. Found in Australia, this 550-million-year-old fossil is ...
A 233-million-year-old dinosaur fossil, thought to be the oldest ever discovered, has been unearthed in Brazil. And all because of torrential rain! The heavy rain eroded parts of a known fossil ...