BrainCan - fossils

joseph barratts grave in middletown, connecticut

Dr. Joseph Barratt was an eccentric polymath who lived in Middletown,Connecticut, in the mid-1800s....

torotoro national park dinosaur footprints in...

There are plenty of things to see and achieve in Bolivia’s Torotoro National Park. You can trek...

discovery of billion year old fungi changes our...

When scientists search for species that lived hundreds of millions of years ago they're not...

carpetana metro station museum in madrid, spain

This underground museum is tucked within the Carpetana metro station in Carabanchel,a neighborhood...

stanhope fossil tree in stanhope, england

In St. Thomas's churchyard,Stanhope, stands an strange piece of history. What appears to be an...

mina el eden rock and mineral museum in zacatecas,...

The El Edén Mine is a cultural complex located within an broken-down silver mine. It has an...

extinct thinking: was the hapless dodo really...

New research hints that far from being the greedy,clumsy bird of legend, the dodo was a resilient...

la balena della val di zena in pianoro, italy

What would you say if going up the ridge of a hill,80 kilometers from the sea, you encountered a...

neptuni Åkrar in borgholm n, sweden

Along the northwest coast of the island of Öland lies Neptuni Åkrar,Swedish for "Neptune's...

tully monster: mystery of the 300 million year old...

For 58 years,this weird-looking creature has defied classification; now this and other big...

520m year old nervous system among oldest and most...

scarce discovery of fossilised nerve tissue from the shrimp-like Chengjiangocaris kunmingensis...

piltdown man, beringer s lying stones,...

Palaeontologists of the past have fallen for some barely believable fakes. So what to contemplate...

fossilised flower is beautiful, deadly and new to...

Encased in amber for up to 30 million years,Strychnos electri is a member of the asterid family...

big cats oldest ancestor found in tibet

The fossil skull of the Panthera blytheae,the precursor to all modern lions, tigers and leopards was...

this 200 million year old baby ichthyosaur died...

This 200-million-year-old baby ichthyosaur died with a stomach full of squidMillions of years ago...

flightless bird with giant head roamed swampy...

Gastornis was also discovered in Wyoming but scientists confirm finding of fossils on Ellesmere...

giant penguin fossil shows bird was taller than...

Analysis of 37m-year-extinct fossil unearthed in Antarctica shows species would have dwarfed...

extinct siberian unicorn may have lived alongside...

Scientists said that creature,which looked more like a rhino than a horse, went extinct 29000 years...

prehistoric rat like mammal fossil is earliest...

Spinolestes xenarthrosus’s 125m-year-faded remains,found in Cuenca, Spain, and with earlobe,lung,...

revealed: rusingoryx, an ancient wildebeest cousin...

Scientists possess unearthed the fossil of an ancient creature,found in a Kenyan streambed, that...

giant ancient prawn had tiny brain, new fossil...

520 million year-used fossil reveals early predator had a brain simpler than that of a velvet wormIt...

99m year old lizard trapped in amber could give...

Specimen analysed after discovery in Myanmar is found to be well preserved and 75m years older than...

skull discovery suggests location where humans...

cranium found in northern Israeli cave in western Galilee,thought to be female and 55000 years old,...

spiders closest relative reveals silky secret of...

Scans of spider-like fossil Idmonarachne brasieri point to the idea that the ability to spin silk...

fossil hunters find man sized penguin on new...

Bones of a 1.77m tall penguin who walked on earth 55 to 60 million years ago acquire been found on a...

exquisite fossil coral unmasked in wet slabs

Bollihope,Durham Splashed with water from the burn the wet rock matrix darkens to reveal the...

man arrested over smuggling dinosaur skeletons...

Seizure of Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton leads authorities to Erik Prokopi,who says he is no...

this humongous 12 foot flightless bird once shared...

Don't even consider making this ancient avian the star attraction for your next Thanksgiving...

fossils dug up at airport may be largest flying...

Prehistoric creature flew 25m years ago and had a wingspan twice that of the royal albatross,the...

this 520 million year old fossil is so intricate...

A team of scientists has discovered a fossil with what may be the the oldest and most well-preserved...

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