Most bizarre fossils ever found

30Oct,2023

Velociraptors were not six-foot-tall, hyper-intelligent carnage machines. The velociraptor was actually about the size of a turkey

Velociraptor and its prey

Although some people have claimed this preserved claw is from a dinosaur, that is not true. It's actually the preserved foot of a moa, a giant flightless bird from New Zealand that went extinct more than 600 years ago 

Claw of Moa

One fossil of a dedicated mother incubating her eggs made waves when it was discovered in the Gobi Desert. The 80 million-year-old Oviraptor helped prove that some dinosaurs had strong parental instincts

Dinosaur incubating her nest

Skeleton of a woolly mammoth sticking out of a lake in northeastern Siberia along with some of its skin, wool, and other soft tissues and even its fossilized poop was excavated

Woolly Mammoth skeleton

A 20-year-old paleontologist made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery in 1962 when he was excavating a mammoth skeleton only to find another mammoth tangled up in its tusks

Mammoths locked tusks

An Aspidorhynchus munching on a small pterosaur known as Rhamphorhynchus met an unusual end

Aspidorhynchus

The title says its all

15-foot Ichthyosaur with torso of 13 foot reptile in its stomach

Perhaps one of the most bizarre and horrible creatures to ever terrorize the sea, Helicoprion was a shark species known only by fossils of its frightening teeth

Helicoprion with a Buzzsaw in its mouth

The spider was in the middle of consuming a juvenile wasp when both predator and prey were engulfed in tree sap. 

100 million-year-old spider