Living Fossil: Elephant Shrew

Living Fossil: Elephant Shrew

Meet one of the most adorable of all the Living Fossil species, the Elephant shrew, Macroscelides proboscideus, one of 15 species of this order. These small, quadrupedal, insectivorous mammals…
A New Cambrian Lagerstätten From China

A New Cambrian Lagerstätten From China

Move over Burgess, there's a new Cambrian Lagerstätten in town. Meet Tuzoia sinesis from the Balang Formation of southern China. China has some very interesting fossil specimens being…
Living Fossil: Calamopleurus

Living Fossil: Calamopleurus

This well-preserved fossil fish skull is from Calamopleurus (Agassiz, 1841), an extinct genus of bony fishes related to the heavily armored ray-finned gars. They are fossil relics, the sole…
Plesiosaurs: Four-Paddled Vortex Swimmers

Plesiosaurs: Four-Paddled Vortex Swimmers

Plesiosaurus were large, carnivorous air-breathing marine reptiles with strong jaws and sharp teeth that moved through the water with four flippers. We'd originally thought that this might not be the…