Paleontology News

A new study led by Zurich University researchers sheds light on the origin of a puzzling skull bone, known as the interparietal, in humans and all other...

Scientists have used ancient DNA from bones of giant extinct New Zealand birds to show that significant climate and environmental changes did not have...

Baobab and palm trees once thrived on today’s icy coasts of Antarctica about 52 million years ago, a new study led by the Goethe University and the...

A survey of the extensive fruit and seed collections from the Middle Eocene of the Messel fossil site in Germany has revealed 140 genera, representing...

An international team of paleontologists has discovered two ancient species of South American rodents, including the oldest chinchilla, a discovery that...

An international group of researchers led by the University of Bristol has used computed tomography and biomechanical modeling to show how plant-eating...

An international team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of feathered dinosaur in southern Germany. Skeleton of Sciurumimus on a limestone...

A team of researchers from the University of Alberta and the Universidad de la República in Uruguay has uncovered physical proof that animals existed...

A new fish fossil from the lower Eocene found by Oxford University researcher Dr Matt Friedman has revealed why flatfishes have one of the most unusual...

Three skull fossils of Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica, one of the two subspecies of the Iberian wild goat, from between 4,000 and 7,000 years ago have shed...

Re-analysis of the braincase of Acanthodes bronni has revealed that this 290-million-year-old fossil fish resembled a shark. The fossilized braincase...

Scientists at the University of California in Santa Cruz have found why insects got smaller despite rising oxygen levels about 150 million years ago. This...

British scientists have developed a new technique to accurately measure the weight and size of dinosaurs and found they are not as heavy as previously...

Scientists have found prehistoric birds that disappeared 65 million years ago may have employed flight styles different to their modern-day counterparts. In...

British researchers have reconstructed for the first time how a famous extinct animal – the early tetrapod called Ichthyostega – moved on land. Reconstruction...

An international team of paleontologists has found that two ink sacs from 160-million-year-old giant cephalopod fossils discovered two years ago in England...

US paleontologists have uncovered fossils of three new raptor dinosaurs that roamed what is now eastern Utah about 130 million years ago. Artist’s reconstruction...

Paleontologists have discovered fossilized remains of a 60-million-year-old South American giant turtle that lived in what is now Colombia. Reconstruction...

A team of paleontologists and volunteers has discovered remains of at least seven different killer dinosaurs that once lived in what is now south-eastern...