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To help solve this mystery, scientists went on an ocean expedition to drill into a large, 145-million-year-old underwater supervolcano.

Scientists have found a 67 million-year-old fossil of a snake coiled around dinosaur eggs and a hatchling.

This four-million-year-old fossil has taken some of the bite out of the great white shark's supposedly menacing ancestry, a new study finds.

It was found in the remains of a 66 million-year-old creature dug up in South Dakota.

These specimens fall at the young end of a very puzzling million-year period in hominin evolution.

It's part of a 150-million-year-old volcanic intrusion that was heavily quarried in the 1960s and is now covered in graffiti.

Researchers used computed tomography or to analyze the skulls of 190-million-year-old mammals found in a Jurassic-era fossil bed in China.

That the observed X-rays might originate from residual internal heat of this 50 million year-old pulsar was also ruled out.

Vivid evidence for that theory appeared when scientists unveiled the true colors of 125-million-year-old feathers.

And in around one million year's time the Red Sea could come flooding into the sinking region, re-shaping the map of Africa forever.

The 220-million-year-old animals did not have full shells, or carapaces , on their backs, researchers found.

The 47 million-year-old remains of a plausible human ancestor, with structural details still intact, can teach us an enormous amount.

Scientists have uncovered the mummy of a 67-million-year-old plant-eating hadrosaur, a duck-billed herbivore common to North America.

With the discovery of Ardi (above), 3. 2-million-year-old fossil Lucy is no longer the oldest hominid skeleton known.

It would have taken a huge cataclysm -- maybe even several in quick succession -- to end their over 150-million-year reign on Earth.

In September, scientists also announced they had found the skeleton of a 3-million-year-old early human ancestor.

The 47 million-year-old fossil is the missing link between man and ape as the creature had opposable thumbs, and fingernails.

It may lie in the shell of a single-celled, 100-million-year-old life form called a diatom.

A SET of 200-million-year-old teeth from a beast related to dinosaurs and crocodiles has shed light on how snake fangs evolved.

The pigments preserved in fossils, including a 120 million-year-old bird, have been revealed using X-rays.

This plant is designed to withstand a 6. 0 earthquake and a million-year flood on the Tennessee River.

This 65. 5-million-year-old layer of Earth separates fossils of the Cretaceous period from those of the Tertiary period.

Two 1. 9 million-year-old skeletons found in a South African cave have added a new and intriguing member to the primate family.

The duality of the not-quite-teenage boy and the 260-million-year-old mountain in the same shot absolutely amazed me.

Last spring, a synchrotron helped scientists create a 3-D image of a 300 million year-old brain.

Back in 1995, he extracted it from a 45 million-year-old fossil.

Carved out of 65-million-year-old sandstone, the cave is 70 feet below ground.

About a decade ago, a short paper in the journal Nature described 250-million-year-old bacteria.

They determined, for example, that a 47-million-year-old feather had the dark iridescent sheen found on starlings today.

In 1993, Cano worked with Poinar and others to remove DNA from a 125 million-year-old Lebanese weevil entombed in amber.

Fossils of Odontochelys semitestacea, a 220-million-year-old primitive turtle (above, an artists rendering), were found recently in China.

It has been joined in the chase for the million-year-old core by three other teams: one from the Australian Antarctic Division;

Amber Ale: Brewing Beer from 45-Million-Year-Old Yeast

Dance in the new million year

The hunt is on for million-year-old ice core