Paleontology News

Paleontologists have described a huge new species of ichthyosaur based on a 244-million-year-old fossil found in the Nevada desert in 2010. Left: skull...

A new species of Cretaceous bird, identified from a fossil found in Liaoning Province, China, suggests some early birds evolved teeth adapted for specialized...

An analysis of fossilized dinosaur tail bones suggests some feathered dinosaurs used tail plumage to attract mates. Artist’s impression of Similicaudipteryx...

A new research published in the open access journal PLoS-ONE has revealed previously unknown differences in the food habits of saber-toothed cats and American...

According to a team of scientists headed by Prof Guillermo Ortí of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, the extinct megapiranha (Megapiranha paranensis)...

An international team of paleontologists has described a new species of mosasaur that lived in freshwater environments about 84 million years ago. According...

U.S.-Spanish scientists have found evidence of what they say is the oldest known camouflaging behavior in insects. This is an artist’s reconstruction...

An international team of paleontologists has made an extremely rare discovery of a 425-million-year-old fossil ostracod crustacean with body, limbs, eyes,...

A new study published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the Chicxulub asteroid collision, widely thought to have...

An international team of paleontologists has identified two ancient species of mosquitoes from so-called compression fossils found in the Kishenehn Basin,...

An international team of paleontologists has discovered what may be the world’s earliest dinosaur. According to the scientists, this creature, named...

According to a new research led by Dr Karen Black of the University of New South Wales, Nimbadon lavarackorum – a large bear-like animal that lived...

An international team of paleontologists has unearthed the skull of a large rhino that perished in a volcanic eruption about 9.2 million years ago in what...

An international team of paleontologists has resolved the evolutionary relationships of strange prehistoric mammal Necrolestes patagonensis. This illustration...

An 11.6 million year old giant panda’s cousin, described earlier this year and attributed to the genus Agriarctos, has been re-evaluated and considered...

Paleontologists from the University of Florida have identified an ancient intermediate form of the white shark, which shows present-day white shark likely...

A new species of horned, plant-eating dinosaur has been identified by U.S. and Canadian paleontologists from fossils originally collected in 1958. An artist’s...

An international team of paleontologists led by the University of Michigan has studied fossilized teeth of saber-toothed cats and bear dogs found at Cerro...

Chinese paleontologists have reported the discovery of well-preserved fossils of a new flying fish species in Xingyi city, southwest China. This is an...