Paleontology News

Two tiny marsupial fossils from Australia are prompting an overhaul of theory about marsupial evolution after they revealed unexpected links to South America...

A new study, published in the journal Precambrian Research, describes evidence that primitive forms of life existed on land 2.2 billion years ago. Bright,...

According to a study by scientists at the University of Wisconsin and Yale University, small, herbivorous, dome-headed dinosaurs from the late Cretaceous...

Paleontologists have described a new extinct genus and species of sea turtle that lived in shallow seas about 67 million years ago during Late Cretaceous. Reconstruction...

Dinosaurs were warm-blooded like mammals, not cold-blooded like reptiles as previously thought, says a biologist from the University of Adelaide, Australia. This...

Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of horned, plant-eating dinosaur that lived in Laramidia – a landmass formed when a shallow...

U.S. scientists have described a new extinct family of scorpionflies from fossils found in British Columbia and Washington state, most prominently at the...

Thylacosmilus atrox – an extinct, bizarre, marsupial super-predator that roamed South America about 4 – 3 million years ago – had huge...

Paleontologists have identified a new species of hornless rhino from fossil skull and mandible found in the Tha Chang area, Nakhon Ratchasima Province,...

Paleontologists have identified a new species of scops owl that lived on São Miguel Island, the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores, until about 500...

According to an international team of paleontologists led by Dr Oumarou Ide from the Université de Niamey, the Republic of Niger, there was an isolated...

European paleontologists have described a new species of spiny shark that lived about 408 million years ago during the Devonian period. Machaeracanthus...

Chemical analysis of fossil tooth enamel from extinct marsupials that lived in what is now southeastern Queensland 5 to 2.5 million years ago has revealed...

A newly discovered bird-like dinosaur named Aurornis xui is about 10 million years older than Archaeopteryx, the feathered dinosaur previously considered...

Scientists from the United States and Japan have discovered unusual spindle-shaped organic microfossils in 3 billion-year-old rocks from the Pilbara Craton...

An international team of paleontologists has discovered a well-preserved skeleton of a new tiny, tree-dwelling primate named Archicebus achilles that lived...

U.S. paleontologists have described a new giant species of lizard that lived in what is now Myanmar up to 40 million years ago. Reconstruction of Barbaturex...

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...