Paleontology News

A team of paleontologists has identified a new species of prehistoric crocodile, nicknamed ‘Shieldcroc’ due to a thick-skinned shield on its head. A...

A team of UK researchers has revealed how the arrival of the first plants 470 million years ago triggered a series of ice ages. The moss Physcomitrella...

An international team of paleontologists led by Dr. Junchang Lü from Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, has announced the...

For the first time, Canadian researchers have suggested that the Earth’s most severe mass extinction was caused by an influx of mercury into the eco-system. In...

A team of researchers working at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center has found that some insects such as crickets and katydids evolved their supersensitive...

Chinese paleontologists have found fossil remains of a new species of pterosaur in Liaoning province, China. Xiaolin Wang from the Graduate University...

A team of researchers from the University of Chicago suggested that the ability to walk has originated underwater. It is known that tetrapods were the...

US palaeontologists have unearthed fossil bones of the biggest dinosaur to ever live in North America. The study, published this week in the journal Acta...

An international team of palaeontologists has discovered the fossilized eyes belonging to an ancient giant shrimp-like marine creature. Artist's impression...

Russian palaeozoologists have discovered 40,000-year-old remains of a young woolly mammoth in Yakutia. Woolly Mammoth at the Royal BC Museum (Tracy O) The...

Researchers from North America and China determined the date and rate of Earth’s most severe mass extinction. A paper in this week’s journal Science...

Geologists at MIT and Harvard University have unearthed rare, flask-shaped microfossils dating back 635 to 715 million years, representing the oldest known...

The extinct giant ape, Gigantopithecus blacki, is a species of large hominoids that dominated the Pleistocene of South China. Its massive mandible, large...

Long before whales, the oceans of Earth were roamed by a very different kind of air-breathing leviathan. Snaggle-toothed ichthyosaurs larger than school...

Researchers have determined that two unusual wasps in amber found in New Jersey, USA represent a new family of wasps, according to a press release from...

Researchers announced the discovery of a new species of large predatory fish that prowled ancient North American waterways during the Devonian Period,...

Scientists from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Tianyu Museum of Nature in Shandong Province, China, and University of Kansas...

The extinction of Ice Age giants such as woolly mammoths, woolly rhinos, giant sloths and saber-toothed cats has been widely studied, but much less is...

A well-preserved fossil discovered in northeast China provides new information about the earliest ancestors of most of today’s mammal species. According...