Jul 12, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in Pakistan have unveiled a new genus and species of prehistoric giraffe relative from the Miocene epoch. Life reconstruction of ancient...

Jul 10, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of iguanodontian dinosaur being named Comptonatus chasei has been described by University of Portsmouth Ph.D. student Jeremy Lockwood...

Jul 8, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Three fossilized teeth from a previously unknown species of non-tyrannosaurid tyrannosauroid dinosaur have been unearthed in northeastern Thailand by a...

Jul 8, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a spectacularly detailed image of the supernova-hosting spiral galaxy NGC 3810. This...

Jul 3, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in China have found the fossil fragments from a new genus and species of stegosaurian dinosaur: Baiyinosaurus baojiensis. Life reconstuction...

Jul 2, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleobotanists have described nine new species of the grape family Vitaceae on the basis of 60- to 19-million-year-old fossil seeds discovered in four...

Jul 1, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

In this new image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the brilliance of the spiral galaxy NGC 4951. This Hubble image shows NGC 4951, a spiral...

Jun 24, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced two outstanding images of NGC 5253, which is considered a dwarf starburst galaxy and...

Jun 20, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of gracilisuchid reptile from the Triassic period has been identified from fossils found in the Santa Maria Formation in Brazil. Artistic...

Jun 20, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of centrosaurine dinosaur from the fossilized remains found in the Judith River Formation in the...

Jun 19, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has obtained its first images since changing to an alternate operating mode that uses only one gyroscope, which helps...

Jun 17, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of unenlagiine dinosaur has been identified by paleontologists in Argentina. Named Diuqin lechiguanae, it fills a substantial gap...

Jun 17, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

The 246-million-year-old specimen represents the geologically oldest sea-going reptile from the southern hemisphere. This image shows nothosaurs swimming...

Jun 17, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

RCW 7 is located approximately 5,300 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Puppis. This Hubble image shows the nebula RCW 7. Image credit:...

Jun 13, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in Australia have discovered fossilized skeletal remains that belonged to a previously unknown, 100-million-year-old anhanguerian pterosaur. Life...

Jun 10, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have redescribed Epitornoceras baldisi, an enigmatic species of ammonoid cephalopod from the Devonian period of Argentina, using new fossils...

Jun 10, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking image of NGC 2005, a globular cluster located 162,000 light-years away from...

Jun 5, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Pachystropheus rhaeticus — one of the last thalattosaur, a large sea-lizard that behaved like an otter — was able to move on land, but was...

Jun 4, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in Japan have described a new species of shark-like cartilaginous fish based on the fossilized teeth from the Late Triassic Momonoki Formation. The...

Jun 4, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of paleontologists has unearthed the fossil remains of a ctenochasmatoid pterosaur from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation in Oxfordshire, central England....