Paleontology News

A new study published in the new peer-reviewed open access journal PeerJ sheds light on the origin of tadpole shrimps, a group commonly regarded as ‘living...

Chinese paleontologists led by Dr Tao He from the Zhejiang Museum of Natural History in Hangzhou have identified a new species of thalattosaur from a fossil...

A 246-million-year-old skull fossil found in Winterswijk, the Netherlands, sheds new light on the origin and phylogenetic development of placodonts, a...

University of Southampton paleontologists have described a completely new genus and species of small prehistoric flying reptile from a fossil discovered...

Paleontologists from the Australian National University have described a new species of ancient fish, after unearthing the largest fossilized lobe-finned...

Analysis of DNA extracted from a fossil tooth found in 1975 in a cave called Razboinichya in southern Siberia, Russia, confirms that the tooth belonged...

A group of paleontologists has announced the discovery of fossilized remains of an extinct giant camel that lived in what is now Canada about 3.5 million...

According to U.S. paleontologists, the discovery of 19 million year old crocodilian fossils in Panama sheds new light on the history of interchange and...

Paleontologists from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, the University of Tennessee and North Carolina State University, have found the...

An international team of paleontologists has solved some of the mysteries surrounding large spiral fossils of an ancient fish called Helicoprion. Outdated...

A study by Prof Paul Else of the University of Wollongong, Australia, suggests dinosaurs may have produced a kind of milk for their offspring. “But...

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...