Fossil

If you needed to know what the weather was like in Singapore tens of millions of years ago, you'd have to consult a different source.

Bryony Tidball brings us this fossilized dragon. Yet another example of how the real history of our planet is being hidden from view.

From the Solnhofen Limestone Formation, Germany, Late Jurassic. Archaeopteryx, meaning "Ancient Wing," was discovered in 1859. Perhaps the most famous fossils in the world, ten skeleton specimens are now known, some amazingly well preserved. Like modern birds, Archaeopteryx had long wing and tail feathers, and has been regarded as the first bird. We now know that complex feathers and other birdlike features were widespread among the meat-eating dinosaurs known as maniraptorans. While…

The life of the Jurassic has been preserved in wonderful fulness and variety; but with comparatively few exceptions, our knowledge of it has been principally derived from Europe, where a host of emine...

Photo about Detail of a fossilized ammonite shot in High Atlas (Marocco). Image of cliff, morocco, helic - 2065807

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This ammonite is on display in our Elements gallery.

Fossil find pushes back the emergence of animals by millions of years. Andrew Masterson reports.

ammonites (fossils) - loved collecting fossils like these as a child with my dad on family holidays by the sea: