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Archaeopteryx: New Specimen Reveals Amazing Details about Feathers of Oldest-Known Bird

Reconstruction of Archaeopteryx in flight. Image credit: R. Liebreich / Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Geology, Munich.
Jul 4, 2014 by News Staff

German paleontologists led by Dr Oliver Rauhut of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany, have discovered a new specimen of Archaeopteryx – a feathered reptile that lived during the Jurassic period, about 150 million years ago – with extensive feather preservation. The specimen shows that the entire body of Archaeopteryx was covered in pennaceous feathers. Reconstruction of Archaeopteryx in flight. Image credit: R. Liebreich...

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Triceratops models at JuraPark in Solec Kujawski, Poland. Image credit: CLI / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Research Provides New Insights into Evolution of Triceratops

Jul 1, 2014 by News Staff

A new study led by paleontologist John Scannella of Montana State University provides a detailed look at shifts in the morphology of Triceratops –...

This image shows the extant sand tiger shark Carcharias taurus. Image credit: Richard Ling / CC BY-SA 2.0.

Shark Fossils Point to Brackish Arctic Ocean in Eocene

Jul 1, 2014 by News Staff

A new study on the teeth of extinct sand tiger sharks Striatolamia macrota and Carcharias spp. has provided the first estimate of Eocene (50 million years...

Qiyia jurassica: Bizarre Bloodsucking Parasite from Jurassic of China

Jun 25, 2014 by News Staff

An international group of paleontologists has described an aquatic larva of a prehistoric fly that lived in what is now Inner Mongolia, China, about 165...

This is an artist's reconstruction of the fauna of Zanda basin - the richest basin on the Tibetan Plateau - from the Pliocene (about 5 to 3 million years ago). Image credit: Julie Selan / Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

New Fossil Fox Discovery Supports Out-of-Tibet Hypothesis

Jun 19, 2014 by News Staff

The exciting discovery of an extinct species of Tibetan fox adds more credence to the out-of-Tibet hypothesis, in which the Tibetan Plateau served as a...

Mercuriceratops gemini. Image credit: Danielle Dufault / Gerhard Boeggemann.

Mercuriceratops: New Long-Horned Dinosaur Discovered

Jun 18, 2014 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists from Canada and the United States has discovered a new genus and species of horned, plant-eating dinosaur that lived during the...

Artistic reconstruction of Herpetocetus morrowi in the late Pliocene Pacific Ocean off southern California. The fish depicted in the upper left is a sheephead, Semicossyphus sp. Image credit: Robert Boessenecker.

Herpetocetus morrowi: New Fossil Species of Dwarf Baleen Whale Discovered

Jun 18, 2014 by Natali Anderson

A new species of diminutive baleen whale that lived between 3.5 and 2.5 million years ago (Late Pliocene) has been described by U.S. paleontologists led...

Megamastax amblyodus: Largest Silurian Vertebrate Discovered in China

Jun 13, 2014 by News Staff

A newly discovered fossil fish named Megamastax amblyodus is the largest vertebrate known in the Silurian fossil record, says a group of paleontologists...

Reconstruction of Metaspriggina walcotti. Image credit: M. Collins.

505-Million-Year-Old Fish Fossils Shed Light on Origin of Jaws

Jun 13, 2014 by News Staff

Several fossil specimens of a Cambrian fish called Metaspriggina walcotti recently discovered in Canada shed new light on the development of the earliest...

Tyrannosaurus rex.

Were Dinosaurs Cold- or Warm-Blooded? New Study Tries to Answer Longstanding Question

Jun 13, 2014 by News Staff

Dinosaurs fit in between warm-blooded mammals and cold-blooded reptiles, according to a study reported in the journal Science. The study is the first to...

Life restoration of Hamipterus tianshanensis. Image credit: Chuang Zhao.

New Pterosaur Species, Well-Preserved Eggs Found in China

Jun 6, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists have discovered remains of about 40 male and female individuals of a new pterosaur species with five exceptionally well-preserved 3D eggs...

The famous Titanoboa would have been a formidable threat to the newly discovered Anthracosuchus balrogus. Image credit: University of Florida.

Anthracosuchus balrogus: Giant Prehistoric Crocodile Discovered

Jun 4, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of crocodile-like reptile that swam in the rivers of what is now Colombia during Paleocene, about 60 million...

This image shows a near-complete skeleton of the Early Cretaceous ichthyosaur Platypterygius hauthali from the Tyndall Glacier, Chile. Image credit: Wolfgang Stinnesbeck et al.

46 Near-Complete Ichthyosaur Specimens Found in Chile

Jun 3, 2014 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists led by Dr Patricio Zambrano Lobos from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in Germany has unearthed the well-preserved...

Aradus macrosomus, a 9.2-mm-long female, in dorsal and ventral view. Image credit: Ernst Heiss.

New Fossil Bug Species Found in 45-Million-Year-Old Baltic Amber

Jun 3, 2014 by News Staff

Dr Ernst Heiss from the Tiroler Landesmuseum in Innsbruck, Austria, has described a new extinct species of flat bug. Aradus macrosomus, a 9.2-mm-long female,...

This early bird, Longipteryx, lived during the early Cretaceous period approximately 120 million years ago. Image credit: Allison Elaine Johnson.

Early Birds Lacked in Diversity, New Study Finds

Jun 2, 2014 by News Staff

Researchers from the University of Chicago and the Field Museum of Natural History have found a striking lack of diversity in the earliest known fossil...

This tick trapped in a piece of 15-million-year-old Dominican amber can carry the type of bacteria that causes Lyme disease. Image credit: George Poinar, Jr. / Oregon State University.

Lyme Disease Bacteria Found in 15-Million-Year-Old Amber

May 30, 2014 by News Staff

Dominican amber, dating back 15 million years ago, provides the oldest evidence ever found of Borrelia – a kind of bacteria that causes Lyme disease...

A tooth of Dakosaurus maximus in lingual, labial, basal and apical view. Scale bar - 1 cm. Image credit: Mark T. Young et al.

UK Paleontologists Find Huge Tooth Fossil of Dakosaurus maximus

May 30, 2014 by News Staff

Dr Mark Young from the University of Edinburgh and his colleagues have discovered a unique fossilized tooth belonging to Dakosaurus maximus, a prehistoric...

This image shows the skeleton of Pumiliornis tessellatus from the middle Eocene; framed area indicates position of stomach contents. Image credit: Gerald Mayr / Volker Wilde.

Pumiliornis tessellatus: Oldest Known Fossil of Nectarivorous Bird Discovered

May 28, 2014 by Enrico de Lazaro

Fossilized pollen grains found in the stomach of a 47-miilion-year-old Pumiliornis tessellatus, a tiny bird that lived in what is now Germany during Eocene,...

This is an artist's impression of Leinkupal laticauda and smaller carnivorous dinosaurs. Image credit: © Jorge Antonio Gonzalez.

Leinkupal laticauda: New Sauropod Dinosaur Discovered in Argentina

May 18, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists led by Dr Pablo Gallina of CONICET in Buenos Aires have discovered a new sauropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Argentina during the...

This image shows Arctodictis sinclairi. It belonged to the same order of mammals as the newly discovered Bolivian species. Image credit: Analia M. Forasiepi.

New Sparassodont Discovered in Bolivia

May 13, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists from the Case Western Reserve University have discovered a fossil of a kitten-sized predator that lived in what is now Bolivia during the...

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