Paleontology News

Apr 11, 2015 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists led by Dr Adam Behlke of Yale University says that very large marine reptiles called mosasaurs did not lay eggs on beaches, and that newborn mosasaurs likely did not live in sheltered nearshore nurseries. Artist’s interpretation of the study’s principal conclusions, illustrating the mosasaur Clidastes liodontus giving live birth in an open ocean approximately 85 million years ago, beneath the shadow of the toothed stem...

Apr 10, 2015 by News Staff

A group of paleontologists has described a new genus and species of Phorusrhacidae that lived in what is now Argentina during the Pliocene epoch, around...

Apr 9, 2015 by News Staff

The evidence comes from paleontologists Dr David Hone of Queen Mary University of London and Dr Darren Tanke of the Royal Tyrrell Museum who analyzed a...

Apr 7, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

Since the early 1900s, paleontologists have believed that the dinosaur genus Brontosaurus (thunder lizard) was in fact the Apatosaurus. Now, a new study,...

Apr 3, 2015 by News Staff

A mass extinction some 201 million years ago may have been triggered by changes in the biochemical balance of Panthalassa (also known as the Panthalassic...

Apr 2, 2015 by News Staff

San Jose State University researcher Dr Jonathan Hendricks has used ultraviolet (UV) light to reveal and characterize the original shell coloration patterns...

Mar 31, 2015 by News Staff

A team of scientists from China, Germany, Poland, and the United Kingdom, has described a new genus and species of an ensign scale insect from mid-Cretaceous...

Mar 28, 2015 by News Staff

A multinational group of paleontologists has described a prehistoric lobster-like animal from the Marble Canyon site, part of the renowned Canadian Burgess...

Mar 24, 2015 by News Staff

A team of scientists led by Dr Steve Brusatte of the University of Edinburgh, UK, has discovered a new species of metoposaurus that lived in lakes and...

Mar 19, 2015 by News Staff

According to a team of scientists headed by Dr Ross MacPhee from the American Museum of Natural History, South American native ungulates – the last...

Mar 19, 2015 by News Staff

A new species of prehistoric crocodile that dates back 231 million years ago (Carnian stage of the Triassic period) has been identified by a team of paleontologists...

Mar 17, 2015 by News Staff

Uplift associated with the East Africa’s Great Rift Valley has puzzled scientists for many years because the timing and starting elevation have been...

Mar 12, 2015 by News Staff

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a 2-m-long lobster-like animal that lived in the seas of what is now Morocco during the early Ordovician period,...

Mar 4, 2015 by News Staff

The well-preserved 150-million-year-old specimen of the herbivorous dinosaur Stegosaurus stenops – now in the Natural History Museum, London, UK –...

Feb 25, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists has described three new species of caimans that lived in the swampy waters of what is now northeastern Peru during...

Feb 20, 2015 by News Staff

Paleontologists Dean Lomax of the University of Manchester, UK, and Prof Judy Massare of Brockport College in New York have discovered a new species of...

Feb 17, 2015 by News Staff

The ability to use atmospheric nitrogen to support more widespread life was thought to have appeared 2 billion years ago. Now, a study led by Dr Eva Stüeken...

Feb 13, 2015 by News Staff

Fossil remains of a 16 million-year-old fur seal, named Eotaria crypta, have shed light on the evolution of fur seals and sea lions. The two seals on the...

Feb 13, 2015 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists from China and the United States has described two shrew-sized mammals that lived during the Jurassic period, between 165 and...

Feb 11, 2015 by News Staff

Three new extinct monkeys that lived in what is now Peru approximately 36 million years ago have been discovered by a team of paleontologists led by Dr...