Paleontology News

For several decades, scientists have wondered how Pleistocene ecosystems (2.5 million to 11,700 years ago) survived despite the presence of huge herbivores,...

A discovery of ancient turtle bones in southern Utah has led a University of Texas paleontologist to identify a new species of long-extinct, pig-snouted...

An endemic and previously unknown species of shorebird has been identified from fossils found in Central Otago, New Zealand. Artist’s concept of Hakawai...

Some species of dinosaurs had the ability to warm themselves by drawing heat from the Sun, according to an international team of paleontologists from the...

An international team of paleontologists from Belgium, France and Mongolia, has unearthed an exceptional block of perinatal specimens (babies) of the giant...

An international team of paleontologists has discovered a 125-million-year-old ancient mammal fossil, which has been named a new species, in Spain. According...

Early birds were capable of performing aerodynamic feats in a manner similar to their modern-day counterparts, according to a team of paleontologists from...

The evolution likely occurred in two stages as one of the animal’s neck vertebrae stretched first toward the head and then toward the tail a few million...

A new genus and species of desmostylian mammal that lived about 23 million years ago (early Miocene) has been identified from fossils found on Unalaska,...

An international team of paleontologists has found a specimen of a previously unknown species of mammal from the early Paleocene, about 65 million years...

A new species – and genus – of armored jawless fish has come to light in the Chinese rocks dating to the Pragian stage of Devonian. An artist’s...

An international team of scientists from India and the United States has uncovered evidence that a massive comet or asteroid impact on Earth 66 million...

Dr George Poinar Jr. of Oregon State University has found a fossilized flea carrying ancient coccobacillus bacteria. The discovery was announced in the...

A team of paleontologists from the United States and the United Kingdom has discovered the reddish brown color of extinct bats from fossils dating back...

According to a new study, published this week in the journal Nature, enamel evolved in the skin and colonized the teeth much later. Early evolution of...

Australia’s early human inhabitants had to contend with giant killer lizards, according to a team of paleontologists from the University of Queensland,...

Paleontologist Prof. Kenshu Shimada of DePaul University and his colleagues have discovered a new genus of extinct planktivorous (plankton-eating) sharks. Pseudomegachasma...

A new species of hadrosaurid dinosaur has been identified from bones discovered in the Prince Creek Formation of northern Alaska. An artist’s depiction...

A new genus and species of coelacanth has been identified from fossils found in a 360 million year-old fossil estuary near Grahamstown, in the Eastern...