Paleontology News

A team of paleontologists has identified two new species of horned dinosaurs, known from fossils found in Alberta, Canada. Unescoceratops koppelhusae (upper...

A team of researchers has discovered that plumage of Microraptor, a pigeon-sized dinosaur that lived about 120 million years ago, was iridescent with a...

Dr. Eliseu Vieira Dias of the State University of Western Paraná (UNIOESTE) has announced the discovery of a new species of deep-bodied fish that prowled...

A team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Florida and University of Nebraska has discovered a correlation between environmental temperature...

An international team of paleontologists has discovered a tropical forest preserved in ash when a volcano erupted 300 million years ago in what is today...

An international team of paleontologists has discovered fossil organisms, which they believe are the first animals that lived on Earth. Fossilized Otavia...

An international team of researchers has reconstructed a song played by a prehistoric bushcricket some 165 million years ago. A modern-day bushcricket...

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...