Paleontology News

A well-preserved 260-million-year-old fossil of an extinct reptile known as Eunotosaurus fills a 30- to 55-million-year gap in the turtle fossil record,...

Paleontologists writing in the journal Paludicola report the discovery of exceptionally well-preserved skull and skeletal remains of the elasmosaurid plesiosaur...

Australian paleontologists have discovered a new species of koala that lived in rainforests of northern Australia some 20 million years ago. Skull of the...

Paleontologists from the United States and Canada have described a new species of dinosaur named Albertadromeus syntarsus, the smallest herbivorous dinosaur...

An international group of paleontologists writing in the journal Nature Communications has described two new prehistoric species of crocodile from fossils...

Using high-resolution CT scanning and 3D computer imaging, Dr Stephan Lautenschlager from the University of Bristol’s School of Earth Sciences and Dr...

Dr David Legg, a paleontologist with the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London, has discovered an ancient creature with...

Ohio University-led scientists have uncovered fossils of two new species of ancient primates, named Rukwapithecus fleaglei and Nsungwepithecus gunnelli,...

Paleontologists led by Dr Pascal Godefroit from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences have identified a new species of ichthyosaur from a well-preserved...

An international team of paleontologists has described a new species of theropod dinosaur from the Middle-Late Jurassic of Xinjiang, China. Skull of Aorun...

A new paleontological study published in the journal Evolution reveals that a small flying dinosaur known as Microraptor was able to swoop down and pick...

Paleontologists, reporting in the journal Nature Communications, have identified a new species of bone-headed, plant-eating dinosaur that lived about 85...

A new study led by Dr Salvador Moya-Sola from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, is the first to examine the pelvis fragments of an early hominid...

A tiny bird fossil, named Eocypselus rowei, offers clues to the precursors of hummingbird and swift wings. Specimen of Eocypselus rowei (Daniel T. Ksepka...

Newly discovered fossils from 10 million years after the end-Permian mass extinction reveal a lineage of animals thought to have led to dinosaurs in what...

Troodon formosus, a small North American theropod dinosaur, incubated its eggs in a similar way to brooding birds, according to paleontologists at the...

Paleontologists have identified the first new species of dinosaur from the island of Madagascar in nearly a decade. Outline of Dahalokely tokana with a...

Leicester University scientists have identified the paired fins of Euphanerops, a fossil jawless fish that lived some 370 million years ago. Euphanerops,...

An international team of paleontologists has unearthed the earliest collection of fossilized dinosaur embryos to date, and discovered organic material...