#palaeontology

#palaeontology

Researchers have described proteins that they say are among the most ancient ever sequenced, pushing back the genetic fossil record to more than 20 million years ago.

Around 1,000 eggs, some as big as 30 centimetres in diameter, have been found here in recent years in an area measuring less than a hectare.

I thought the same thing too! It's probably just a private, and cinematic, joke from Jurassic World Rebirth writer David Koepp or director Gareth Edwards.

Echidnas and another Australian oddity—the semi-aquatic platypus—are believed to have evolved from a common ancestor called Kryoryctes cadburyi that lived in Australia more than 100m years ago.