Fossils discovered in Tanzania in the 1930s have helped identify a "missing link" in dinosaur evolution that reveals their ancestors had long necks, walked on four legs and looked like crocodiles.
The 245-million-year-old fossils held in Britain's Natural History Museum were studied by palaeontologist Alan Charig in the 1950s.
But they were incomplete and it was only more fossils foundRead more
480 million-year-old fossils discovered north of Zagora have revealed one of mollusk’s common ancestors, according to a study published February 6 in the scientific journal Nature.
The discovery of fossils in the Fezouata formation in south-east Morocco has allowed paleontologists to trace the family tree of the mollusk species, particularly that of chitons and marine mollusks, which are still foundRead more