Paleontology News

Dec 14, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

U.S.-Spanish scientists have found evidence of what they say is the oldest known camouflaging behavior in insects. This is an artist’s reconstruction of H. diogenesi (J. A. Peñas) A paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports the discovery of a fossil of a new insect larva species with specialized pack of plant remains. The 4-mm-long fossil is a predatory larva of the order Neuroptera. It is covered by a tangle...

Dec 14, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of paleontologists has made an extremely rare discovery of a 425-million-year-old fossil ostracod crustacean with body, limbs, eyes,...

Dec 11, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A new study published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the Chicxulub asteroid collision, widely thought to have...

Dec 5, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of paleontologists has identified two ancient species of mosquitoes from so-called compression fossils found in the Kishenehn Basin,...

Dec 5, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of paleontologists has discovered what may be the world’s earliest dinosaur. According to the scientists, this creature, named...

Nov 23, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a new research led by Dr Karen Black of the University of New South Wales, Nimbadon lavarackorum – a large bear-like animal that lived...

Nov 22, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of paleontologists has unearthed the skull of a large rhino that perished in a volcanic eruption about 9.2 million years ago in what...

Nov 22, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of paleontologists has resolved the evolutionary relationships of strange prehistoric mammal Necrolestes patagonensis. This illustration...

Nov 15, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An 11.6 million year old giant panda’s cousin, described earlier this year and attributed to the genus Agriarctos, has been re-evaluated and considered...

Nov 15, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists from the University of Florida have identified an ancient intermediate form of the white shark, which shows present-day white shark likely...

Nov 8, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new species of horned, plant-eating dinosaur has been identified by U.S. and Canadian paleontologists from fossils originally collected in 1958. An artist’s...

Nov 7, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of paleontologists led by the University of Michigan has studied fossilized teeth of saber-toothed cats and bear dogs found at Cerro...

Nov 5, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Chinese paleontologists have reported the discovery of well-preserved fossils of a new flying fish species in Xingyi city, southwest China. This is an...

Oct 30, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A Sino-German group of paleontologists has reported the discovery of a large paleontological site in China’s northwest province of Xinjiang with about...

Oct 24, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A professional paleontologist has identified a new species of coelacanth from 100 million-year-old fossil remains found in the fossil-rich Duck Creek Formation,...

Oct 12, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to an international team of paleontologists, a Cambrian fossil arthropod found in China is the earliest known fossil to show a brain. This image...

Oct 9, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have discovered an extraordinarily rare fossil of a spider attacking a wasp caught in its web. This is the only fossil ever discovered...

Oct 4, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A professional paleontologist studying fossils in a collection at Harvard University has identified a new species of dinosaur. The newly discovered species,...

Sep 26, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of scientists has created a lifelike reconstruction of a multiplacophoran, an ancient mollusk that lived about 390 million years...

Sep 25, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Scientists at the University of Washington suggest that early microbes might have been widespread on land, producing oxygen and weathering pyrite, an iron...