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List about the most important fossils in the world The search for truth through a scientific lens is allowing us to reconstruct the history of human origins from the fossils of our ancestors. History is certainly incomplete and its narrative is continually reformed after new finds of fossil records. The same happens in the animal and vegetable world. In the case of dinosaurs, they probably represent the most incredible creatures that ruled the planet for more than 160 million years. From the size of a hummingbird to the wingspan of trucks and buildings, these ferocious sauropsids once fought for terrestrial control, but ended up extinct about 65 million years ago. Fortunately, thanks to the fossils, the solid evidence behind our image of life on Earth, we have a good In this list about the most important fossils in the world you can find: 21. Archeopteryx 20. Iguanodon 19. Hadrosaurus 18. Halszkaraptor 17. Multicellular Life: 2230 Million Years 16. Coelophysis 15. The First Dinosaur Fossil With Preserved Hair 14. Megalosaurus 13. Diplodocus 12. Maiasaura 11. The Turkana Child 10. The largest human fossil field in history 9. The oldest known fish: Metaspriggina 8. The Greatest Dinosaur in History 7. The World's Best Preserved Dinosaur Fossil 6. The World's Oldest Flower Plant 5. Lucy, The Most Famous Fossil In The World 4. The World's Oldest Fossil 3. Mosasaurus 2. The Most Complete Skeleton of Tyrannosaurus Rex 1. Nyasasaurus 22. Prehistoric Rodents We say goodbye with the first known mammal: the Rurasodon eurasiaticus. This species of extinct mammal, measured 17 centimeters and weighed 80 grams. Its appearance should be similar to that of a rat or a contemporary squirrel and lived 160 million years ago in the territory that is now China. Despite its small size had a series of anatomical features that allowed him to move with agility in different areas and have an omnivorous diet (could feed on both plants and animals). His discovery was published in 2013 in the journal Science. 21. Archeopteryx In 1860, Charles Darwin published his fantastic treatise on evolution, 'On the Origin of Species'. Luckily, in the following years a series of spectacular discoveries took place in the limestone deposits of Solnhofen, Germany: complete and exquisitely preserved fossils of an ancient creature, Archeopteryx, which seemed to be the perfect 'missing link' between the dinosaurs and birds Since then, other fossils have been unearthed but none has had an impact as deep as this pigeon-sized dinosaur. The Archeopteryx, which lived in the Upper Jurassic period about 150 million years ago, in what is now southern Germany, represents the dinosaur-bird link. 20. Iguanodon The Iguanodon was the second dinosaur after the Megalosaurus to receive a formal name for its genus; more importantly, its numerous fossils (first investigated by Gideon Mantell in 1820) precipitated a heated debate among naturalists about whether or not these ancient reptiles existed. Georges Cuvier and William Buckland, for example, claimed that these bones belonged to a rhino but, the English biologist and paleontologist Richard Owen prevailed with reality identifying the Iguanodon as a true dinosaur. The Iguanodon lived in the early Cretaceous period, approximately 130-120 million years ago, in what is now Europe. 19. Hadrosaurus The Hadrosaurus is very important, more for historical than paleontological reasons: it was the first almost complete dinosaur fossil excavated in the United States, and one of the few that was discovered on the east coast (found in the Woodbury Formation of New Jersey) instead of in the west. Named by the American paleontologist Joseph Leidy in 1858, the Hadrosaurus lent its nickname to a large family of duck-billed dinosaurs, the hadrosaurs, a species that lived about 80 million years ago, in Campanian, in... The images you can find in this video are property of 20 minutos