The Lost Worlds Revisited team has been reflecting on a bumper twelve months of palaeontological discoveries. First life on earth - Susannah LydonSome of the smallest fossil finds of 2017 were among the most controversial. Facebook Twitter Pinterest An epoxy mount containing a sliver of a nearly 3.5 billion-year-old rock from the Apex chert deposit in Western Australia. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A digital rendering of the CT scan of the skeleton of Halszkaraptor escuilliei. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Shringasaurus indicus, a Triassic reptile from India, with an unusual body shape and forward facing horns.

Source: The Guardian December 28, 2017 09:02 UTC