Paleontology News

Jul 15, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Thousands of fossilized bones from a Cretaceous-period bonebed in Wyoming, the United States, offer rare physical evidence that Tyrannosaurus rex fed on the carcasses of a duck-billed dinosaur species called Edmontosaurus annectens. Life reconstruction of Edmontosaurus annectens. Image credit: Dani Navarro. “Identifying the origin of perforating lesions on fossil bone is often difficult, and many are considered tooth traces, in spite of more likely...

Jul 14, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur has been identified in southern Alberta, Canada, dating back 77 million years to the Campanian...

Jul 13, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in Uruguay have identified a new species of aeolosaurine titanosaur from a pair of remarkably well-preserved tailbones unearthed in the...

Jul 10, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Today, lepidosaurs — the reptile group that includes lizards, snakes and New Zealand’s tuatara — are among the most diverse vertebrates on...

Jul 10, 2026 by News Staff

Spriggina floundersi, a marine species that lived during the Ediacaran period 550 million years ago, is one of Earth’s earliest bilaterally symmetrical...

Jul 9, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists working in northeastern Thailand have identified a new species of mamenchisaurid sauropod dinosaur, offering fresh evidence that a group...

Jul 7, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in China have described a small, previously unknown Jurassic bird whose short tail offers new evidence for how the earliest birds traded...

Jul 1, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

A small fossil collected on an Antarctic island more than four decades ago is a tail vertebra of a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur that roamed Antarctica...

Jul 1, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Urokodia aequalis, an early Cambrian marine predator from the Chengjiang biota of China, preserves the earliest known evidence of chelicerae — the...

Jun 30, 2026 by Natali Anderson

Named Panthera pardus burgtonnae, the newly-identified leopard subspecies roamed Europe during the Eemian interglacial period and was far more heavily...

Jun 30, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

New research from the University of Bristol suggests that pterosaurs — the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight — probably displayed...

Jun 29, 2026 by Natali Anderson

A nearly complete skull unearthed decades ago in Arizona has given paleontologists their clearest look yet at Adelphailurus kansensis, an enigmatic felid...

Jun 29, 2026 by News Staff

Fossils from the Jose Creek Formation in New Mexico reveal that angiosperms (flowering plants) had built dense, fruit-bearing forests nearly 75 million...

Jun 26, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists working in Brazil have identified a previously unknown species of archosauriform that lived about 240 million years ago and may belong...

Jun 23, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of four-winged pennaraptoran dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of northern China is adding another twist to the story of how birds...

Jun 19, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

A 113-million-year-old pterosaur fossil from northeastern Brazil has yielded rare evidence of soft tissues, organic molecules and chemical traces of a...

Jun 19, 2026 by News Staff

Paleontologists from the Field Museum of Natural History have described the fossilized remains of baby embolomeres, crocodile-like predators that prowled...

Jun 18, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Exceptionally preserved skin of Montsecosuchus depereti, an extinct crocodylomorph no larger than a house cat that prowled the tropical wetlands of Early...

Jun 16, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of paleontologists from Romania, Hungary and Italy has identified a new genus and species of herbivorous, duck-billed dinosaur from...

Jun 15, 2026 by Sergio Prostak

Deep inside a limestone cave in southern China, paleontologists have uncovered an assemblage of thirteen fossilized teeth belonging to Gigantopithecus...