Paleontology News

Sep 2, 2011 by James Freeman

The extinction of Ice Age giants such as woolly mammoths, woolly rhinos, giant sloths and saber-toothed cats has been widely studied, but much less is known about where these giants came from. The discovery of a primitive woolly rhino fossil in Tibet suggests that some giant mammals first evolved there before the beginning of the Ice Age. The finding is published in this week’s issue of the journal Science. Artist's reconstruction of Tibetan...

Aug 31, 2011 by James Freeman

A well-preserved fossil discovered in northeast China provides new information about the earliest ancestors of most of today’s mammal species. According...

Aug 23, 2011 by James Freeman

Harvard researchers have found that practice of processing food through cooking was likely invented by human’s early ancestors more than 1.9 million...

Aug 22, 2011 by James Freeman

The oldest fossil evidence for early life has been discovered in micrometre-sized pyrite crystals from the Strelley Pool Formation in Western Australia,...

Aug 16, 2011 by James Freeman

In a new study co-authored by University of Florida scientists, researchers recovered and analyzed the oldest fossil evidence of fingernails in modern...

Aug 10, 2011 by James Freeman

Paleontologists have discovered a group of more than 20 polar dinosaur tracks on the coast of Victoria, Australia, offering a rare glimpse into animal...