The news that an eleven-year-old girl, Ruby Reynolds, has found an important fossil proves that anyone can make historical discoveries if they are willing to get out and look. The fossilized bone, found on a beach in Somerset in 2020, was recently identified by Dean Lomax, a palaeontologist from the University of Manchester, as being … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. A 280-million-year-old fossil thought to be a well-preserved example of an ancient reptile is largely a forgery, according to new research. The fossil, first discovered in the Italian Alps in 1931, has the scientific name … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. A 280-million-year-old fossil thought to be a well-preserved example of an ancient reptile is largely a forgery, according to new research. The fossil, first discovered in the Italian Alps in 1931, has the scientific name … Read more