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Lichens Were Already Widespread in Early Devonian, Enigmatic Fossils from Brazil Show

Morphology and internal structures of Spongiophyton nanum. Image credit: Becker-Kerber et al., doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adw7879.
Oct 30, 2025 by News Staff

Paleontologists have identified the 410-million-year-old specimens of Spongiophyton nanum from the Ponta Grossa Formation in the Paraná Basin of Brazil as one of the oldest and most widespread lichens from the fossil record. An artistic reconstruction of Spongiophyton nanum during the Early Devonian in the high latitude depositional system of the Paraná Basin. Image credit: J. Lacerda. The colonization of land and the subsequent evolution of complex...

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Whiteia anniae in right lateral view, holotype. Image credit: Dai et al., doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-20229-w.

Paleontologists Discover New Species of Early Triassic Coelacanth

Oct 27, 2025 by Sergio Prostak

Paleontologists in China have described a new species of the coelacanth genus Whiteia on the basis of two fossilized specimens. This discovery extends...

An artist’s impression of the binary stellar system TOI-2267. Image credit: Mario Sucerquia, University of Grenoble Alpes.

Astronomers Find Three Earth-Sized Exoplanets in Compact Binary System

Oct 27, 2025 by Natali Anderson

The binary stellar system TOI-2267 likely harbors two warm Earth-sized exoplanets and an additional Earth-sized candidate, according to a new paper published...

An artist’s impression of Wadisuchus kassabi. Image credit: Nathan Dehaut / MUVP.

80-Million-Year-Old Fossils of Long-Snouted Crocodile Unearthed in Egypt

Oct 27, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have discovered two partial skulls and three partial jaws from an early-diverging dyrosaurid crocodyliform in the layers of the Quseir...

Life reconstruction of the St Bathans bowerbird (Aeviperditus gracilis). Image credit: Sasha Votyakova / Te Papa / CC BY 4.0.

Tiny Fossil Reveals Previously Unknown Songbird Lineage from New Zealand

Oct 27, 2025 by News Staff

Paleontologists have found the 2.9-cm-long fossilized foot bone of a possible bowerbird species at the Miocene locality of St Bathans in Aotearoa New Zealand. Life...

Life reconstruction of Edmontosaurus annectens. Image credit: Dani Navarro.

Two New Specimens of Edmontosaurus annectens Preserve Fine Details of Scales and Hooves

Oct 23, 2025 by News Staff

Paleontologists have examined two exceptional specimens of the end-Cretaceous, duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens. Using an array of imaging...

An artist’s conception of the Gliese 251 system, showing Gliese 251c (left), its host star (right), and the previously-discovered planet Gliese 251b (middle). Image credit: Michael Marcheschi / m2design.

Super-Earth Candidate Found in Habitable Zone of Gliese 251

Oct 23, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Gliese 251 is an early red dwarf star and the 74th closest star system to our Sun. An artist’s conception of the Gliese 251 system, showing Gliese 251c...

Paranthropus boisei. Image credit: © Roman Yevseyev.

Paranthropus boisei was Capable of Tool Making, New Fossil Suggests

Oct 21, 2025 by News Staff

Paleoanthropologists have unearthed and examined a hominin partial skeleton that includes hand and foot bones unambiguously associated with skull elements...

Life reconstruction of Brontotholus harmoni. Image credit: Connor Ashbridge / CC BY 4.0.

New Species of Dome-Headed Dinosaur Identified in Montana

Oct 20, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from five fossil specimens found in the Late Cretaceous Two Medicine...

Drummond-Clarke et al. show that trees were an essential component of the hominin adaptive niche, with bipedalism evolving in an arboreal context, likely driven by foraging strategy. Illustration by Arturo Asensio, via Quo.es.

Humans Evolved from African Ape-Like Ancestor, Research Suggests

Oct 20, 2025 by News Staff

In new research, paleoanthropologists from the United States and Canada analyzed the morphology of a hominin talus (large bone in the ankle that joins...

Hierococcyx tiganada. Image credit: Robert O. Hutchinson.

New Species of Hawk-Cuckoo Discovered in Borneo

Oct 17, 2025 by Natali Anderson

A team of ornithologists from the National University of Singapore, Birdtour Asia Ltd., and the University of Queensland has described a new and cryptic...

This artist’s impression shows the evolution of heavy water molecules as they have been observed in giant molecular clouds, a planet forming-disk, and comets -- before they eventually may have made their way to Earth. Image credit: NSF / AUI / NSF’s NRAO / P. Vosteen / B. Saxton.

ALMA Detects Heavy Water in Planet-Forming Disk around Distant Protostar

Oct 17, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected doubly deuterated water (D2O), or ‘heavy water,’ in the protoplanetary...

Huayracursor jaguensis. Image credit: Jorge Blanco.

Paleontologists Discover New Species of Triassic Long-Necked Dinosaur

Oct 16, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have unearthed a new assemblage of Triassic fossils at the Quebrada Santo Domingo site of the Northern Precordillera Basin in northwestern...

An artist’s reconstruction of Anteavis crurilongus. Image credit: Jorge Blanco.

New Species of Triassic Carnivorous Dinosaur Identified in Argentina

Oct 15, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of theropod dinosaur being named Anteavis crurilongus has been described by a team of paleontologists from the Universidad Nacional...

A small crystal of ice XXI formed through nucleation and slow melting process. Image credit: Lee et al., doi: 10.1038/s41563-025-02364-x.

New Form of Ice Discovered: Ice XXI

Oct 15, 2025 by News Staff

Scientists have demonstrated that supercompressed water transforms into ice VI at room temperature through multiple freezing-melting pathways, which occur...

Life reconstruction of Xiphodracon goldencapensis. Image credit: Bob Nicholls.

Fossil of Long and Narrow-Snouted Ichthyosaur Uncovered in England

Oct 13, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

University of Manchester paleontologist Dean Lomax and his colleagues have identified a new genus and species of leptonectid ichthyosaur from a fossilized...

A reconstructed illustration of Polistodon chuannanensis. Image credit: Chuang Zhao / PNSO.

Two Jurassic Mammal Relatives Had Uniquely Shaped Jaw Joints

Oct 13, 2025 by News Staff

The evolution of the modern mammal jaw is more complex than previously thought, according to a new analysis of fossils belonging to two mammaliamorph species:...

This image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was captured on October 3, 2025 by the CaSSIS instrument aboard ESA’s Trace Gas Orbiter. Image credit: ESA / TGO / CaSSIS.

Trace Gas Orbiter Captures New Images of Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS

Oct 8, 2025 by Natali Anderson

During its closest approach to Mars on October 3, 2025, 3I/ATLAS was 30 million km away from ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO). This image of the...

This artist’s painting of the south polar region of Enceladus shows massive jets of water ice being blasted into space. Image credit: Karl Kofoed / NASA.

Cassini Detects Organic Molecules in Freshly Ejected Ice Grains from Enceladus’ Ocean

Oct 7, 2025 by News Staff

Saturn’s moon Enceladus continuously ejects a plume of ice grains and gases originating from its subsurface ocean via fractures near its south pole....

Life reconstruction of Ahshislesaurus wimani based on the holotype and closely related species. Image credit: Sergey Krasovskiy.

Paleontologists Identify New Species of Flat-Headed Herbivorous Dinosaur

Oct 6, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Cretaceous period in what is now New Mexico has been identified and named by paleontologists...

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