💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🦖🏜️ It is rare to find more than just the teeth of a Spinosaurus, but a recent expedition in #Niger successfully uncovered a nearly complete skull and articulated skeleton.

This 95-million-year-old #predator was the length of a school bus and lived as a "riparian" hunter, snagging #fish in forested rivers hundreds of kilometers from the #ocean.

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/hell-heron-dinosaur-niger-paul-sereno?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=spinosaurus-mirabilis

#africa #desert #dinosaurs #discovery #fossils #paleontology #sahara #science #tksst #video

Ancient salamander-crocodile predator revealed by new WA fossil research
By Ruby Littler

Salamander-crocodile type predator survived five extinction events and travelled from the waters off Norway to WA's Kimberley coast.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-24/globetrotting-marine-amphibian-kimberley-fossil/106378096

#Fossils #RubyLittler

🦖🏜️ It is rare to find more than just the teeth of a Spinosaurus, but a recent expedition in #Niger successfully uncovered a nearly complete skull and articulated skeleton.

This 95-million-year-old #predator was the length of a school bus and lived as a "riparian" hunter, snagging #fish in forested rivers hundreds of kilometers from the #ocean.

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/hell-heron-dinosaur-niger-paul-sereno?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=spinosaurus-mirabilis

#africa #desert #dinosaurs #discovery #fossils #paleontology #sahara #science #tksst #video

Finally! An Ancient Fish That Understood Life’s Terrors

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://defector.com/finally-an-ancient-fish-that-understood-lifes-terrors

Some good news for the start of the week-- a 290 million year old fossilized cloaca has been discovered, which is in fact the the earliest fossilized cloaca ever found. https://www.sciencealert.com/oldest-fossilized-butthole-found-in-290-million-year-old-reptile

#science #fossils #cloacas

Scientists discover dino from ‘hell’ with sword protruding from head

It was a spine-tingling discovery. Fossil hunters might’ve just made the find of a lifetime — the skull…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #dinosaurs #fossils #Science #studysays #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/403087/

One from the archives for #FossilFriday. A much younger me with the skull of the giant plesiosaur Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni, in a store room of the National Museum of Ireland, back in 2007.

The skull has been turned upside down here, a view not often seen, as I was inspecting the palate.

#Fossils #plesiosaur #pliosaur

1.77-million-year-old Homo erectus skulls in China show early humans reached Asia sooner than believed

https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/1-77-million-year-old-homo-erectus-skulls-in-china/

#science #paleontology #anthropology #fossils