Millipedes ‘as big as cars’ once roamed Northern England, fossil find reveals
The largest-ever fossil of a giant millipede — as big as a car — has been found on a beach in the north of England. The fossil — the remains of a creature called Arthropleura — dates from the Carboniferous Period, about 326 million years ago, over 100 million years before the Age of Dinosaurs. […]
Paleontologists debunk fossil thought to be missing link between lizards and first snakes
Filling in the links of the evolutionary chain with a fossil record of a ”snake with four legs” connecting lizards and early snakes would be a dream come true for paleontologists. But a specimen formerly thought to fit the bill is not the missing piece of the puzzle, according to a new Journal of Systematic […]
‘Dragon man’ fossil may replace Neanderthals as our closest relative
A near-perfectly preserved ancient human fossil known as the Harbin cranium sits in the Geoscience Museum in Hebei GEO University. The largest of known Homo skulls, scientists now say this skull represents a newly discovered human species named Homo longi or “Dragon Man.” Their findings, appearing in three papers publishing June 25 in the journal […]