Paleontology News

May 29, 2012 by James Freeman

British researchers have reconstructed for the first time how a famous extinct animal – the early tetrapod called Ichthyostega – moved on land. Reconstruction of the whole body of Ichthyostega (Julia Molnar) The study, published in Nature, examines limb mobility in the 360 million year old fossil tetrapod by reconstructing the first ever 3D computer model of its skeleton. “It took almost three years of hard work on difficult fossil...

May 22, 2012 by Natali Anderson

An international team of paleontologists has found that two ink sacs from 160-million-year-old giant cephalopod fossils discovered two years ago in England...

May 21, 2012 by News Staff

US paleontologists have uncovered fossils of three new raptor dinosaurs that roamed what is now eastern Utah about 130 million years ago. Artist’s reconstruction...

May 17, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have discovered fossilized remains of a 60-million-year-old South American giant turtle that lived in what is now Colombia. Reconstruction...

May 17, 2012 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists and volunteers has discovered remains of at least seven different killer dinosaurs that once lived in what is now south-eastern...

May 16, 2012 by News Staff

British paleontologists have found signs of a degenerative condition similar to human arthritis in the jaw of a pliosaur, an ancient sea reptile that lived...

May 15, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

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

May 10, 2012 by Natali Anderson

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...

May 9, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

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...

May 8, 2012 by News Staff

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

May 7, 2012 by James Freeman

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...

May 4, 2012 by News Staff

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

May 2, 2012 by James Freeman

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...

Apr 27, 2012 by News Staff

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...

Apr 26, 2012 by James Freeman

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

Apr 18, 2012 by James Freeman

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

Apr 16, 2012 by News Staff

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...

Apr 12, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

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

Apr 10, 2012 by News Staff

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

Apr 5, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

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