Paleontology News

A team of European scientists has found several specimens of thrips with pollen grains captured in amber, providing the oldest known evidence of insect...

Scientists have discovered a new fossil species of bear that roamed what is now Spain in the Myocene period. Artist’s reconstruction of Agriarctos beatrix...

Researchers from the Natural History Museum in UK have identified the world’s smallest species of mammoth known to date. The Cretan dwarf mammoth may...

Fossilized remains of a ceratosaurian dinosaur discovered in Australia in 2006 is the first evidence that a major group of meat-eating dinosaurs roamed...

US scientists have discovered fossils of the largest known true crocodile, a creature that roamed what is now Kenya between 2 and 4 million years ago. The...

Canadian fossil collectors from the Peace Region Paleontology Research Center in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, have discovered fossils of a stunning...

Chinese scientists have discovered fossils of remarkable giant flea-like animals that lived millions years ago in what is now China. An artist’s impression...

An amateur paleontologist has discovered a fossil of a very mysterious organism dubbed Godzillus that lived in shallow seas in what is now the Cincinnati...

An international team of scientists led by Dr. Tao Deng of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,...

An international team of researchers has found why and how egg-laying reproduction may have led to the extinction of dinosaurs. Tyrannosaurus rex, one...

An international team of researchers has discovered the fossilized skull of a new species of coelacanth, which is more than 400 million years old, about...

An international team of paleontologists has unearthed the oldest known fossil reptile embryos dating back about 280 million years. An artist’s reconstruction...

An international team of paleontologists has discovered a 70 million years old pocket of fossilized bones and unique eggs of an enigmatic birdlike dinosaur...

An international team of paleontologists has discovered fossils of the largest feathered dinosaur known to date. An artist’s impression of a group of...

An international team of Ethiopian and American scientists conducting paleontological field research in the Woranso-Mille area of the Afar region of Ethiopia...

An international team of paleontologists led by Dr. Xiaolin Wang of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology has discovered a new...

A team of researchers led by Dr. Susan Rule of the Australian National University has found that human arrival rather than climate change caused the extinction...

An international team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of fossil scops owl, the first extinct bird on the archipelago of Madeira, Portugal. Illustration...

A team of scientists from Monash University and the University of Bristol has found that the tiny teeth of a long-extinct prehistoric fish are the sharpest...