Some 4,000 illegally exported fossils, including five dinosaur eggs worth EUR 150,000 have been seized along with valuable rocks and minerals in a raid by Spanish police. They also reportedly found several live animals that had been also hidden with the fossils in the hope of smuggling them into Europe.…
A multidisciplinary team of experts has discovered 30 never-before-seen invertebrate species deep within the Galapagos Islands Marine Reserve. According to newly released information by the Charles Darwin Foundation, the discovery is the result of a 10-day expedition carried out in 2015 in the deep protected waters of the Galapagos Marine…
Chinese have found the fossil of a new dinosaur which would have had a huge club-like tale to defend itself. The new dinosaur is reportedly from the genus ankylosaurus which were armour-plated dinosaurs that had huge bony tails that were used like a club to defend themselves. It lived at…
These two rare shark species have been recorded in the waters around the Galapagos Islands for the first time ever. Scientists of the Charles Darwin Foundation and other associated organisations observed a broadnose sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianos) and bluntnose sixgill (Hexanchus griseus) in the deep waters of the Galapagos Marine…
Argentine palaeontologists have identified this tiny bone from a frog which lived 2 million years ago after a family found it when digging a well - and experts say it could belong to a previously undiscovered species. The tiny bone was discovered as the Bastia family were digging a well…
