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Paleontologists say a 75-million-year-old turtle fossil uncovered in southern Utah has a clutch of eggs inside, making it the first prehistoric pregnant turtle found in the United States. At least three eggs are visible from the outside of the fossil, and ...studying images taken from a CT scan in search of others inside. the turtle was probably about a week from laying her eggs ...

Bulgarian Paleontologists Stumble upon Prehistoric Tooth 28 November 2007, Wednesday A team of scientists with Bulgaria's Natural History Museum have unearthed a tooth dated back to the Late Miocene, the head of the fossil and recent Mammalia museum department Dr. Nikolay Spasov announced on Wednesday. The tooth is some seven million years old and belonged to a hominid.A team of archaeologists, paleontologists, paleo-anthropologists and biologists from the museum spent the last ten years in researching the flora, the fauna and the overall nature setting in Bulgaria from the time of the late Neogene (10,7 - 5,3 million years BC). The...

Papers have been flapping with new headlines about the latest in a long line of alleged dinosaur ancestors of birds. This one is claimed to be a sensational dinosaur with feathers on its hind legs, thus four ‘wings’.1 This was named Microraptor gui—the name is derived from words meaning ‘little plunderer of Gu’ after the paleontologist Gu Zhiwei. Like so many of the alleged feathered dinosaurs, it comes from Liaoning province of northeastern China. It was about 3 feet (1 meter) long from its head to the tip of its long tail, but its body was only about the size...

<p>The fossil, which measures less than a quarter-inch long, is believed to be from the middle or late Jurassic Period, perhaps 170 million years old. Researchers said it suggests that mammals developed independently in the Southern Hemisphere.</p> <p>The fossil, named Asfaltomylos patagonicus, was discovered in a mudstone formation in the province of Chubut, 950 miles south of Buenos Aires. The now-arid region also has yielded some remarkable dinosaur fossils from the same era in a vast ancient boneyard covering hundreds of square miles.</p>