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Published It turns out, this fossil 'plant' is really a fossil baby turtle
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Researchers re-examined a plant fossil found decades ago in Colombia and realized that it wasn't a p ...
Published Discovery of 500-million-year-old fossil reveals astonishing secrets of tunicate origins
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Researchers describe a 500 million-year-old tunicate fossil species. The study suggests that the mod ...
Published Fossil shows how penguins' wings evolved
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source A tiny fossil penguin plays a huge role in the evolutionary history of the bird, an international st ...
Published Mystery solved: The oldest fossil reptile from the alps is an historical forgery
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Palaeontological analysis shows that a renowned fossil thought to show soft tissue preservation is i ...
Published Mysterious fruit shown to be the oldest known fossils of the Frankincense and Myrrh family
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Early in the 1970s, paleontologists discovered strange fossilized fruits between hardened rock from ...
Published Fossil frogs share their skincare secrets
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Palaeontologists have solved a hundred-year-old mystery of how some fossil frogs preserve their fles ...
Published 'Golden' fossils reveal origins of exceptional preservation - Golden Fossils Reveal Origins of Exceptional Preservation
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source A recent study found that many of the fossils from Germany's Posidonia shale do not get their gleam ...
Published Marine fossils are a reliable benchmark for degrading and collapsing ecosystems
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Humans began altering environments long before records were kept of the things that lived in them, m...
Published Spurge purge: Plant fossils reveal ancient South America-to-Asia 'escape route'
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Newly identified plant fossils found in Argentina suggest that a group of spurges long thought to ha ...
Published Miocene period fossil forest of Wataria found in Japan
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source An exquisitely preserved fossil forest from Japan provides missing links and helps reconstruct a who ...
Published The evolution of photosynthesis better documented thanks to the discovery of the oldest thylakoids in fossil cyanobacteria
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Researchers have identified microstructures in fossil cells that are 1.75 billion years old. These s ...
Published Florida fossil porcupine solves a prickly dilemma 10-million years in the making
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source An exceptionally rare fossilized porcupine skeleton discovered in Florida has allowed researchers to ...
Published Fossil hotspots in Africa obscure a more complete picture of human evolution
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source A new study shows how the mismatch between where fossils are preserved and where humans likely lived ...
Published Paleontology: New fossil fish genus discovered
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Paleontologists have identified a new genus of fossil goby, revealing evolutionary secrets of a line ...
Published New fossil site of worldwide importance uncovered in southern France
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Nearly 400 exceptionally well-preserved fossils dating back 470 million years have been discovered i ...
Published Fossil feces infested with parasites from over 200 million years ago
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Fossilized feces preserve evidence of ancient parasites that infected an aquatic predator over 200 m ...
Published Race to find world's oldest mammal fossils led to mud-slinging
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source The hunt for the world’s most ancient mammals descended into academic warfare in the seventies, rese...
Published Paleontologists flip the script on anemone fossils - Paleontologists Flip the Script on Anemone Fossils
(via sciencedaily.com) Billions of sea anemones adorn the bottom of the Earth's oceans -- yet they are among the rarest of...
Published Wastewater pipe dig reveals 'fossil treasure trove'
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source A new article describes the 266 fossil species as one of the richest and most diverse groups of thre ...
Published Fossils tell tale of last primate to inhabit North America before humans
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Paleontologists have shed light on the long-standing saga of Ekgmowechashala, based on fossil teeth ...