Paleontology News

An international team of researchers has discovered the fossilized skull of a new species of coelacanth, which is more than 400 million years old, about...

An international team of paleontologists has unearthed the oldest known fossil reptile embryos dating back about 280 million years. An artist’s reconstruction...

An international team of paleontologists has discovered a 70 million years old pocket of fossilized bones and unique eggs of an enigmatic birdlike dinosaur...

An international team of paleontologists has discovered fossils of the largest feathered dinosaur known to date. An artist’s impression of a group of...

An international team of Ethiopian and American scientists conducting paleontological field research in the Woranso-Mille area of the Afar region of Ethiopia...

An international team of paleontologists led by Dr. Xiaolin Wang of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology has discovered a new...

A team of researchers led by Dr. Susan Rule of the Australian National University has found that human arrival rather than climate change caused the extinction...

An international team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of fossil scops owl, the first extinct bird on the archipelago of Madeira, Portugal. Illustration...

A team of scientists from Monash University and the University of Bristol has found that the tiny teeth of a long-extinct prehistoric fish are the sharpest...

An international team of researchers has found that rodent-like creatures called multituberculates flourished during the last 20 million years of the dinosaurs’...

A team of paleontologists has identified two new species of horned dinosaurs, known from fossils found in Alberta, Canada. Unescoceratops koppelhusae (upper...

A team of researchers has discovered that plumage of Microraptor, a pigeon-sized dinosaur that lived about 120 million years ago, was iridescent with a...

Dr. Eliseu Vieira Dias of the State University of Western Paraná (UNIOESTE) has announced the discovery of a new species of deep-bodied fish that prowled...

A team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Florida and University of Nebraska has discovered a correlation between environmental temperature...

An international team of paleontologists has discovered a tropical forest preserved in ash when a volcano erupted 300 million years ago in what is today...

An international team of paleontologists has discovered fossil organisms, which they believe are the first animals that lived on Earth. Fossilized Otavia...

An international team of researchers has reconstructed a song played by a prehistoric bushcricket some 165 million years ago. A modern-day bushcricket...

A team of paleontologists has identified a new species of prehistoric crocodile, nicknamed ‘Shieldcroc’ due to a thick-skinned shield on its head. A...

A team of UK researchers has revealed how the arrival of the first plants 470 million years ago triggered a series of ice ages. The moss Physcomitrella...