A fly caught in amber, showing its original coloration. Image: Chenyang Cai et al., 2020 Fossils rarely retain evidence of an organism’s original color, but these 99-million-year-old amber fossils found in Myanmar reveal the vibrant hues of another world. New investigation Published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B …
Read More »A monstrous prehistoric reptile egg found in Antarctica has been identified.
Entering the record books as the second largest animal egg ever found on Earth, paleontologists from the National Museum of Natural History of Chile and the University of Texas at Austin have identified a giant fossilized egg that belongs to a reptile Extinct marine that once swam in Antarctic waters …
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