Tag: Fossil

Mystery of half-billion year old creature with no anus solved

August 18, 2022 No Comments

Scientists say they have solved an evolutionary mystery involving a 500 million-year-old microscopic, spiny creature with a mouth but no anus.
When it was discovered in 2017, it was reported that the tiny fossil of this sack-like marine beast could be humans’ earliest-known ancestor

Ichthyosaur: Huge fossilised ‘sea dragon’ found in Rutland reservoir

January 10, 2022 No Comments

“I rang up the county council and I said I think I’ve found a dinosaur,” explained Joe Davis, who works at Rutland Water Nature Reserve.

During landscaping work at the reserve’s reservoir in February 2021, he had spotted something odd poking out of the mud.

It wasn’t a dinosaur. But it was the fossilised remains of a 10m-long sea predator called an ichthyosaur.

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