fossils

There was a time when Burnaby Mountain, and the areas around it along B.C.'s south coast, was a warmer, less mountainous region where palm trees grew, according to new research that identified plant fossils unearthed at the site more than…

Seventy-five million years ago in southern Alberta, a river flooded, burying the eggs of bird-like dinosaurs nesting on the nearby plain. Now, tiny pieces of those fossil egg shells offer new evidence about how dinosaurs lived, bred and…

Humans have always been fascinated by the idea of extraterrestrial life. As technology advanced, we have taken many steps in trying to understand it. Advance in technology keeps providing new opportunities to do so. We have held many…

Researchers have discovered the oldest known remains of a giant ancient oceanic reptile, known as an ichthyosaur, on a remote Arctic island, offering new evidence of how the creature may have evolved. The…

Fifty million years ago, New Zealand was home to penguins that stood as tall as humans and weighed as much as adult gorillas. Scientists have discovered fossils of the largest penguin known to date, thought to have weighed between 148 and…

A man who dug up fossilized dinosaur footprints from a protected area in northern B.C. has been fined and sentenced to nearly a month in jail.A provincial court judgment released this week said Bennward Dale Ingram and three others used…

Scientists have uncovered new clues about a curious fossil site in Nevada, a graveyard for dozens of giant marine reptiles. Instead of the site of a massive die-off as suspected, it might have been an ancient maternity ward where…

Tribune News Service Vijay Mohan Chandigarh, December 16 The recent discovery of nine million-year-old fossils of lizards and snakes in Bilaspur area…