Tagged: fossils

A fossil of a giant penguin with a body length of around 150 centimeters ((4.92 feet)) has been discovered in New Zealand. The new species is among the oldest penguin fossils in the world and lived about 61 million years ago in the region of...

– The ancient Tully Monster is a decades-old paleontological mystery that scientists still cannot solve. The ancient animal is so weird it simply doesn’t fit any classification. First discovered in the 1950s in Mazon Creek, a prolific fossil bed in central Illinois, the Tully Monster,...

– Saccorhytus Coronarius is a very unusual bag-like sea creature with a huge mouth and no anus. Scientists now say it’s humans’ oldest known ancestor. Found in Shaanxi Province, in central China and named Saccorhytus, after the sack-like features created by its elliptical body and...

An ancient Celtic shrine has been unearthed during excavations at Bulgaria’s sacred place, Sboryanovo, in the region known as “Holy Land of the Getae”, which was inhabited by a powerful group of Ancient Thracian tribes. These people – closely related to the Dacians – lived...

The Olduvai Gorge is a steep-sided ravine in the Great Rift Valley that stretches through East Africa. It is located in the eastern Serengeti Plains in northern Tanzania. The gorge is a very important prehistoric site for the study of human evolution. The formation –...