Paleontology News

Every year, hundreds of new dinosaurs, prehistoric marine reptiles and fishes are discovered, and among them are always a few really weird or beautiful...

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a previously unknown species of cursorial hyena that lived in what is now Tibetan Plateau during the middle...

A 19 to 16-million-year-old fossil of a kiwi-like bird unearthed at St Bathans, New Zealand, suggests that the kiwi is not a dwarf version of a distant...

Canadian paleontologists have described a new genus and species of raptor dinosaur that lived in western North America about 66 million years ago, at the...

A unique fossil of the duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus regalis shows for the first time that those dinosaurs’ heads were adorned with a fleshy...

An international team of paleontologists have discovered fossils of a new horse species that was about the size of a small zebra and roamed eastern Africa...

Paleontologists have discovered a new genus and species of dicynodont that lived in what is now modern Mozambique during the Late Permian period, about...

By using CT scanning technology combined with computer simulations, paleontologists have revealed what role keratinous beaks of some dinosaurs played in...

Paleontologists announced today the discovery of a new predatory dinosaur that lived in what is modern-day Utah around 100 million years ago. An artist’s...

Paleontologists led by Dr Jelle Zijlstra from Harvard’s Peabody Museum have discovered a new genus and species of tarsier that lived in what is modern-day...

A well-preserved 6 to 4 million-year-old skull of a previously unknown species of prehistoric snow leopard from Tibet is the oldest big cat fossil ever...

Dr Nora Noffke from Old Dominion University in Norfolk and her colleagues have unearthed evidence of complex microbial ecosystems in 3.48 billion year...

Paleontologists have described a new species of giant, spineless hedgehog that lived in what is today the Gargano peninsula of Italy during the late Miocene,...

A team of scientists has found a well-preserved, 165-million-year-old fossil of copulating froghoppers, Anthoscytina perpetua, at the Daohugou village...

Paleontologists have unearthed a huge new predatory dinosaur in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, southern Utah. Artist’s impression of...

An Australian-U.S. team of paleontologists has found a unique fossil of a huge, carnivorous platypus that lived in what is now Australia during the late...

Using an advanced computer modeling technique, researchers from UK and Argentina recreated walking and running movements of the 130-feet-long Argentinosaurus...

According to a new study published in the journal Palaeontology, two footprints found at Dinosaur Cove in southern Victoria are the oldest avian tracks...

Paleontologist from Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has described an odd new hippopotamus-like animal that lived in what is now California...