The discovery of fossils has helped scientists piece together the history of our planet, and towards a better understanding of where we came from. We can tell quite a lot about how an organism lived and died by what remains of it under the earth, and the most interesting fossil discoveries tell the best stories.
Last month, palaeontologists from Wits University used a new X-ray scanning process to uncover fossilised remains from the Karoo – and found two unrelated species sharing the same burrow. One was an early mammal-like reptile, and the other was an amphibian, and the two had died curled up next to each other under the ground, 250-million years ago. Read more>>>
