Fossil

A 7.5-million-year-old giraffe forearm bone has been found during this year's excavations that have continued since 2018 on the shore of Yamula Dam in Kocasinan district of the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri.

Eva-Maria Sadowski, a postdoctoral researcher at the Natural History Museum in Berlin, didn't have a particular agenda in mind when she decided to borrow the biggest fossil flower preserved in amber ever found.

"I did it without any expectations, I just did it because I was curious," she said.

New fossil specimens were found in the 9-million-year-old fossil area near Kaklıca Tepe, in the Özlüce district of the southwestern province of Muğla, where excavations started after fossils were discovered by shepherds in 1993.

Fossils belonging to sea creatures estimated to be 35 million years old were found by a field research team in eastern Turkey.

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A Canadian geologist may have found the earliest fossil record of animal life on Earth, according to a report published on July 28 in the journal Nature.

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Marine fossils discovered in eastern Turkey indicate the region was underwater millions of years ago, according to experts.

The residents of Elazığ's Akçatepe village, who took their animals to graze on a hill at an average altitude of 1,100 meters (3,600 feet) above sea level, noticed that there were mussel-and snail-like remains on the surrounding cliffs.

A geologist from Istanbul Technical University has claimed that fossils on some 145-million-year-old stones used at the base of the Republic Monument, a notable monument located at Istanbul's Taksim Square, have come to the surface.

"When you look at the monument, you can see fossils clearly," Serkan Angı, who is also a natural stone specialist, told daily Hürriyet on March 15.

A nearly 70-million-year-old fossil belonging to a gastropod was recently found in Turkey's southeastern Adıyaman province.

A shepherd came across a relief-style figure on the rock in the Şahkolu village of Sıncık district, following which an examination was made by the Adıyaman Museum Directorate.

A fossilized tree trunk is unearthed on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos, in a photograph released on Friday. Archaeologists excavating the eastern Aegean island's petrified forest on Thursday discovered 50 new tree trunks that had been buried for thousands of years under volcanic ash and debris. [Stratis Balaskas/ANA-MPA]

The Museum of Natural History of the Petrified Forest of Lesvos has announced the discovery this week of a large and intact fossilized tree complete with its branches and roots during excavations carried out along the Kalloni-Sigri road on the eastern Aegean island.