Fossil

Scientists from Torondo, Canada claimed in Nature Communications Scientific Review, that they identified traces of collagen in a dinosaur fossil 195.000.000 years old. Soft tissue is extremely difficult and rare to be preserved inside fossils. But if found it can be the source of enormous amounts of information, provided that it won’t be contaminated during it extraction.

A joint scientific team from Russia, Britain, Germany and believe they might have discovered the missing evolutionary link in central China. The scientists found the fossilized remains of a microscopic ‘bag-like’ creature which probably ate and excreted using its mouth. could be a key missing link in the evolutionary chain, according to a new study.

Massive shark teeth washed up on eastern North Carolina beaches after recent storms unearthed them from beneath the ocean. Some of the teeth were about the size of an adult’s hand.

The fossilized teeth found  in North Topsail Beach and in Surf City and it is believed that comes from a giant ancient shark the Megalodon which lived 15 million years ago.

A farmer living in the southern Turkish province of Kahramanmara??s Türko?lu district has found a number of pieces thought to be the fossil of an ancient elephant. 

A geo-park is set to be built in Cappadocia to display fossils that were unearthed during construction by the Housing Development Administration (TOK?) last year in the Central Anatolian province of Nev?ehir's Gül?ehir and Ürgüp districts. 

The fossils of monkeys, pigs, horses and antelopes, which are estimated to have lived in Anatolia 8 million years ago, have been unearthed during works conducted by the Ahi Evran University (AEU) Surface Survey Group. 

A rhino fossil nearly 10 tons in weight and give meters in height has been found in Çorum’s Sungurlu district. The fossil dates back 23 to 27 million years and comes from the biggest known land mammal

Fossils accidentally discovered in an old mine in the northern province of Samsun’s Ladik district have been determined to be a mammoth that lived 2 million-years-ago.

"Welcome to Mesozoic" exhibition opens on April 30

BELGRADE -- The exhibition entitled "Welcome to Mesozoic" will open in the gallery of the Natural History Museum in Belgrade on April 30.

Organizers described the geological era as "a long-gone world and times which still attract the most attention of all the bygone eras".