Animal fossils

Mexican officials recently revealed a remarkable discovery at a bustling construction site for a new airport: an ancient flamingo egg estimated to be around eight to twelve thousand years old. The find has piqued the interest of archaeologists and...

Scientists have identified a new species of bat, which is the oldest bat skeleton found in the world. This discovery has helped to fill in the gaps in the fossil record of these flying creatures and given researchers new...

A graveyard of fossilized shark teeth was found nearly 5.3 miles below the Indian Ocean, according to researchers from Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). The researchers discovered the teeth in October during a month-long voyage along Indonesia's...

The remains of the last known Tasmanian tiger, believed to have been lost for the last eighty-five years, have been found in an Australian museum. The discovery of the bones and skull of the last existing thylacine was made in...