Paleontology News

An international team of scientists has created a lifelike reconstruction of a multiplacophoran, an ancient mollusk that lived about 390 million years...

Scientists at the University of Washington suggest that early microbes might have been widespread on land, producing oxygen and weathering pyrite, an iron...

German researchers have discovered that the oldest known giant salamander Aviturus exsecratus was able to live on land as well as in water. An artist’s...

An amateur paleontologist has discovered the world’s smallest known fossil vertebrate footprints at the Joggins Fossil Cliffs, a 689 ha paleontological...

According to an international team of paleontologists, a 9.7-meter-long mortichnia of a horseshoe crab unearthed at a famous fossil locality in Germany...

One fly and two mites found in droplets of amber from northeastern Italy are about 100 million years older than any other amber arthropod – invertebrate...

University of Toronto graduate student Martin Smith has for the first time reconstructed mouthparts of two mollusk-like animals Odontogriphus and Wiwaxia...

A study by Melbourne University researcher Prof John Hayman shows that some ancient marine animals, including ichthyosaurs, giant dolphin-like reptiles...

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...