fossils

The 31-foot Late Cretaceous dinosaur-eating crocodilian has been reconstructed in full for the first time using 3D scans of fossils collected over four decades, with the only mounted cast unveiled at the Tellus Science Museum.

A trove of late Ediacaran fossils in Yunnan province reveals bilaterians, deuterostomes, and comb jellies existed at least four million years before the Cambrian explosion, reshaping the timeline of animal evolution.

A fossil assemblage preserved as carbonaceous films in Yunnan Province reveals more than 700 specimens of complex animals, including the oldest known deuterostomes, dating to 554-539 million years ago and closing a major gap between the Ediacaran period and the Cambrian explosion.

Spinosaurus mirabilis, the first new spinosaurid species in over a century, has been identified from fossils in Niger's Sahara, challenging the view that these predators were coastal.