One of the largest and most complete fossils of a dinosaur species is expected to fetch a whopping amount of $6 million at the Sotheby’s “Geek Week” auction this summer. The “virtually complete” fossil of Stegosaurus stands tall at 11ft (3.4 metres) with a length of more than 20ft. Nicknamed “Apex”, it is 30 per …
Damien and Muffin found cliffside bones while walking in Montouliers forest. Damien Boschetto, a paleontology enthusiast from southern France, stumbled upon a remarkable discovery while walking his dog Muffin in the forests of Montouliers. Boschetto spotted bones protruding from a cliffside and upon investigation, he realized he had unearthed a nearly complete skeleton of a …
Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for more than 150 million years. Some of them were the largest and scariest creatures that ever lived on our planet. There were more than 2000 species of dinosaurs that existed. Scientists and researchers have developed several theories about the extinction of dinosaurs. Some of them suggest that a giant asteroid …
A man walking his dog found a bone, which turned out to be a 70-million-year-old dinosaur bone from a near-complete dinosaur fossil. Damien Boschetto, a 25-year-old man in France, came across a bone two years ago while walking in a forest near Montouliers. He reported his discovery to local researchers at the Cultural, Archaeological and …
Large fossilized bones discovered in Oxfordshire’s slate quarries in the late 1600s posed an immediate mystery in a world unfamiliar with concepts of evolution and extinction. Seeking an explanation, experts speculate they might belong to a Roman war elephant or a colossal human. It wasn’t until 1824 that William Buckland, Oxford University’s inaugural geology professor, …