Paleontology News

A small, insect-eating animal was the common ancestor of placental mammals, an international team of researchers has reported in the journal Science (full...

A team of scientists from Romania, the United Kingdom and Brazil has described a new species of extinct flying reptile from the time of the dinosaurs. This...

Tapeworm eggs found in 270-million-year-old fossilized shark feces provide the earliest known evidence of intestinal parasites in vertebrates. Left: a...

Sexual selection can be inferred from the fossil record, according to a new paleontological study appearing in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Sexual...

Paleontologist Derek Larson of the Royal Ontario Museum, who spent six years analyzing fossilized dinosaur teeth, has identified more than 20 species of...

According to a team of paleontologists from Europe and China, the discovery of a new bird-like dinosaur from the Jurassic period challenges widely accepted...

An international team of scientists has discovered a 2-million-year-old species of fox at the site of Malapa in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage...

According to Dr Julien Benoit and his colleagues from the University of Science and Technology in Montpellier, France, an Eocene skull fossil discovered...

Paleontologists have described a huge new species of ichthyosaur based on a 244-million-year-old fossil found in the Nevada desert in 2010. Left: skull...

A new species of Cretaceous bird, identified from a fossil found in Liaoning Province, China, suggests some early birds evolved teeth adapted for specialized...

An analysis of fossilized dinosaur tail bones suggests some feathered dinosaurs used tail plumage to attract mates. Artist’s impression of Similicaudipteryx...

A new research published in the open access journal PLoS-ONE has revealed previously unknown differences in the food habits of saber-toothed cats and American...

According to a team of scientists headed by Prof Guillermo Ortí of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, the extinct megapiranha (Megapiranha paranensis)...

An international team of paleontologists has described a new species of mosasaur that lived in freshwater environments about 84 million years ago. According...

U.S.-Spanish scientists have found evidence of what they say is the oldest known camouflaging behavior in insects. This is an artist’s reconstruction...

An international team of paleontologists has made an extremely rare discovery of a 425-million-year-old fossil ostracod crustacean with body, limbs, eyes,...

A new study published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the Chicxulub asteroid collision, widely thought to have...

An international team of paleontologists has identified two ancient species of mosquitoes from so-called compression fossils found in the Kishenehn Basin,...

An international team of paleontologists has discovered what may be the world’s earliest dinosaur. According to the scientists, this creature, named...