Remnants of DNA have been discovered in fossilised remains dating to 6 million years ago of a sea turtle closely related to today's Kemp's ridley and olive ridley turtles, marking one of the rare times genetic material has been identified in such ancient fossils of a vertebrate, researchers said on Thursday. In some of the osteocytes, the cell nuclei were …
In some exciting news for natural history enthusiasts, paleontologists have discovered an Old World monkey fossil in China this week. The 6.4 million-year-old fossils of the species were discovered in the Shuitangba lignite mine in the northeastern Yunnan Province of China. The study says that the discovery of fossil elements are very important as they represent the oldest known monkeys …
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