Fossil

In the spring of 2022, Georgios Georgalis, an associate professor of paleontology at the Academy of Sciences in Krakow, Poland, was invited to France by the University of Montpellier to examine fossils from a large excavation.

A 10-million-year-old Miocene fossil limpet that was discovered some 15 years ago in Istanbul offers insight into the parts of the city that are most vulnerable to a potential large-scale Marmara earthquake, an expert has pointed out.

Numerous animal fossils, estimated to be 7.5 million years old, were unearthed in the excavations around Yamula Dam, built on the Kızılırmak River in the central Anatolian province of Kayseri.

A 7.5-million-year-old giraffe forearm bone has been found during this year's excavations that have continued since 2018 on the shore of Yamula Dam in Kocasinan district of the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri.

Eva-Maria Sadowski, a postdoctoral researcher at the Natural History Museum in Berlin, didn't have a particular agenda in mind when she decided to borrow the biggest fossil flower preserved in amber ever found.

"I did it without any expectations, I just did it because I was curious," she said.

New fossil specimens were found in the 9-million-year-old fossil area near Kaklıca Tepe, in the Özlüce district of the southwestern province of Muğla, where excavations started after fossils were discovered by shepherds in 1993.

Fossils belonging to sea creatures estimated to be 35 million years old were found by a field research team in eastern Turkey.

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A Canadian geologist may have found the earliest fossil record of animal life on Earth, according to a report published on July 28 in the journal Nature.

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Marine fossils discovered in eastern Turkey indicate the region was underwater millions of years ago, according to experts.

The residents of Elazığ's Akçatepe village, who took their animals to graze on a hill at an average altitude of 1,100 meters (3,600 feet) above sea level, noticed that there were mussel-and snail-like remains on the surrounding cliffs.

A geologist from Istanbul Technical University has claimed that fossils on some 145-million-year-old stones used at the base of the Republic Monument, a notable monument located at Istanbul's Taksim Square, have come to the surface.

"When you look at the monument, you can see fossils clearly," Serkan Angı, who is also a natural stone specialist, told daily Hürriyet on March 15.