←

fossil

Specimen nature

371 image(s) · 183 News

Image gallery

Collection of four troodontids, clockwise from top left: Mei long, unnamed Alaskan troodontid, Jianianhualong tengi, Sinovenator changii.
Taxa Troodontinae

Collection of four troodontids, clockwise from top left: Mei long, unnamed Alaskan troodontid, Jianianhualong tengi, Sinovenator changii.

museum Taiwan fossil holotype +7
Collection of four troodontids, clockwise from top left: Mei long, unnamed Alaskan troodontid, Jianianhualong tengi, Sinovenator changii.
Taxa Troodontini

Collection of four troodontids, clockwise from top left: Mei long, unnamed Alaskan troodontid, Jianianhualong tengi, Sinovenator changii.

museum Taiwan fossil holotype +7
Collection of four troodontids, clockwise from top left: Mei long, unnamed Alaskan troodontid, Jianianhualong tengi, Sinovenator changii.
Taxa Saurornithoidini

Collection of four troodontids, clockwise from top left: Mei long, unnamed Alaskan troodontid, Jianianhualong tengi, Sinovenator changii.

museum Taiwan fossil holotype +7
Collection of four troodontids, clockwise from top left: Mei long, unnamed Alaskan troodontid, Jianianhualong tengi, Sinovenator changii.
Taxa Sinovenatorinae

Collection of four troodontids, clockwise from top left: Mei long, unnamed Alaskan troodontid, Jianianhualong tengi, Sinovenator changii.

museum Taiwan fossil holotype +7
Elangatoolithidae fossil dinosaur eggs, from China. Exhibit in the Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Photography was permitted in this area of the museum without restrictions.

Elangatoolithidae fossil dinosaur eggs, from China. Exhibit in the Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Photography was permitted in this area of the museum without restrictions.

museum China United States fossil +2
Fossil specimen of Ornithomimus sp. (TMP 1995.110.1), Royal Tyrrell Museum. This specimen was recovered from the middle Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada.

Fossil specimen of Ornithomimus sp. (TMP 1995.110.1), Royal Tyrrell Museum. This specimen was recovered from the middle Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada.

museum Canada Germany Dinosaur Park +6
Taken at the Minnosota Science Museum: Dinosaurs and Fossils Gallery. Creative Commons licensed photo by ideonexus.com. Please feel free to take and reuse for any purpose.
Taxa Prognathodontini

Taken at the Minnosota Science Museum: Dinosaurs and Fossils Gallery. Creative Commons licensed photo by ideonexus.com. Please feel free to take and reuse for any purpose.

museum fossil Dinosauria Mosasaurinae +1
Montage of six dinosaur fossils: (clockwise from top left) Deinonychus antirrhopus, Buitreraptor gonzalezorum, Velociraptor mongoliensis, Microraptor gui, Halszkaraptor escuilliei, and Zhenyuanlong suni. This is a collection of six different works already found in Wikimedia Commons: File:Deinonychus FMNH.jpg File:Buitreraptor FMNH.jpg File:Velociraptor Wyoming Dinosaur Center.jpg File:MicroraptorGui-PaleozoologicalMuseumOfChina-May23-08.jpg File:Halszkaraptor escuilliei.jpg File:Zhenyuanlong.jpg All of them are either under a free license already in Wikimedia Commons or in the public domain
Taxa Itemiridae

Montage of six dinosaur fossils: (clockwise from top left) Deinonychus antirrhopus, Buitreraptor gonzalezorum, Velociraptor mongoliensis, Microraptor gui, Halszkaraptor escuilliei, and Zhenyuanlong suni. This is a collection of six different works already found in Wikimedia Commons: File:Deinonychus FMNH.jpg File:Buitreraptor FMNH.jpg File:Velociraptor Wyoming Dinosaur Center.jpg File:MicroraptorGui-PaleozoologicalMuseumOfChina-May23-08.jpg File:Halszkaraptor escuilliei.jpg File:Zhenyuanlong.jpg All of them are either under a free license already in Wikimedia Commons or in the public domain

fossil Buitreraptor Deinonychus Dinosauria +8
Montage of six dinosaur fossils: (clockwise from top left) Deinonychus antirrhopus, Buitreraptor gonzalezorum, Velociraptor mongoliensis, Microraptor gui, Halszkaraptor escuilliei, and Zhenyuanlong suni. This is a collection of six different works already found in Wikimedia Commons: File:Deinonychus FMNH.jpg File:Buitreraptor FMNH.jpg File:Velociraptor Wyoming Dinosaur Center.jpg File:MicroraptorGui-PaleozoologicalMuseumOfChina-May23-08.jpg File:Halszkaraptor escuilliei.jpg File:Zhenyuanlong.jpg All of them are either under a free license already in Wikimedia Commons or in the public domain
Taxa Ornithodesmidae

Montage of six dinosaur fossils: (clockwise from top left) Deinonychus antirrhopus, Buitreraptor gonzalezorum, Velociraptor mongoliensis, Microraptor gui, Halszkaraptor escuilliei, and Zhenyuanlong suni. This is a collection of six different works already found in Wikimedia Commons: File:Deinonychus FMNH.jpg File:Buitreraptor FMNH.jpg File:Velociraptor Wyoming Dinosaur Center.jpg File:MicroraptorGui-PaleozoologicalMuseumOfChina-May23-08.jpg File:Halszkaraptor escuilliei.jpg File:Zhenyuanlong.jpg All of them are either under a free license already in Wikimedia Commons or in the public domain

fossil Buitreraptor Deinonychus Dinosauria +8
Uses https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dromaeosaurus_in_Canadian_Museum_of_Nature.jpg File:Alaskan_troodont_Perot_Museum.jpg File:Unenlagia_fossils.jpg File:Talos_sampsoni.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Velociraptor_Wyoming_Dinosaur_Center.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saurornitholestes File:Buitreraptor-Deinonychus.jpg File:Dakotaraptor_lateral_Wiki.jpg

Uses https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dromaeosaurus_in_Canadian_Museum_of_Nature.jpg File:Alaskan_troodont_Perot_Museum.jpg File:Unenlagia_fossils.jpg File:Talos_sampsoni.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Velociraptor_Wyoming_Dinosaur_Center.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saurornitholestes File:Buitreraptor-Deinonychus.jpg File:Dakotaraptor_lateral_Wiki.jpg

museum fossil Buitreraptor Dakotaraptor +8
fossil of hydrorion

fossil of hydrorion

fossil Hydrorion
Ischyrotherium antiquus fossils.

Ischyrotherium antiquus fossils.

fossil Ischyrosaurus
Fossil of Archaeopteryx- Took the picture at Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Fossil of Archaeopteryx- Took the picture at Teylers Museum, Haarlem

museum fossil Archaeopteryx Ostromia
Fossil bone of Procerosaurus exogyrarum, possible dinosaur from the Czech Republic. National Museum, Prague (2007).

Fossil bone of Procerosaurus exogyrarum, possible dinosaur from the Czech Republic. National Museum, Prague (2007).

bone museum Czech Republic fossil +3
Fossil of Thaisaurus - Took the picture at Museo di Storia Naturale, Milano
Taxa Thaisauridae

Fossil of Thaisaurus - Took the picture at Museo di Storia Naturale, Milano

fossil Thaisauridae Thaisaurus
Fossil of Blezingeria, an extinct reptile - Muschelkalkmuseum Hagdorn

Fossil of Blezingeria, an extinct reptile - Muschelkalkmuseum Hagdorn

fossil Blezingeria
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

News

A 16-million-year-old amber fossil just revealed the smallest predator ant ever found
predator fossil evolution extinction
A fossilized Caribbean dirt ant, Basiceros enana, preserved in Dominican amber, reveals the species ancient range and overturns assumptions about its size evolution. Advanced imaging shows it already had the camouflage adaptations of modern relatives, offering new insights into extinction and survival strategies.
09/08/2025 sciencedaily-human-evo
400-million-year-old fish exposes big mistake in how we understood evolution
fossil discovery evolution
A fish thought to be evolution’s time capsule just surprised scientists. A detailed dissection of the coelacanth — a 400-million-year-old species often called a “living fossil” — revealed that key muscles believed to be part of early vertebrate evolution were actually misidentified ligaments. This means foundational assumptions about how vertebrates, including humans, evolved to eat and breathe may need to be rewritten. The discovery corrects decades of anatomical errors, reshapes the story of s
29/07/2025 sciencedaily-human-evo
A 500-million-year-old fossil just rewrote the spider origin story
fossil
Half a billion years ago, a strange sea-dwelling creature called Mollisonia symmetrica may have paved the way for modern spiders. Using detailed fossil brain analysis, researchers uncovered neural patterns strikingly similar to today's arachnids—suggesting spiders evolved in the ocean, not on land as previously believed. This brain structure even hints at a critical evolutionary leap that allowed spiders their infamous speed, dexterity, and web-spinning prowess. The findings challenge long-held
24/07/2025 sciencedaily-human-evo
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37