Paleontology News

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...

Scientists at the University of California in Santa Cruz have found why insects got smaller despite rising oxygen levels about 150 million years ago. This...

British scientists have developed a new technique to accurately measure the weight and size of dinosaurs and found they are not as heavy as previously...

Scientists have found prehistoric birds that disappeared 65 million years ago may have employed flight styles different to their modern-day counterparts. In...

British researchers have reconstructed for the first time how a famous extinct animal – the early tetrapod called Ichthyostega – moved on land. Reconstruction...

An international team of paleontologists has found that two ink sacs from 160-million-year-old giant cephalopod fossils discovered two years ago in England...

US paleontologists have uncovered fossils of three new raptor dinosaurs that roamed what is now eastern Utah about 130 million years ago. Artist’s reconstruction...

Paleontologists have discovered fossilized remains of a 60-million-year-old South American giant turtle that lived in what is now Colombia. Reconstruction...

A team of paleontologists and volunteers has discovered remains of at least seven different killer dinosaurs that once lived in what is now south-eastern...

British paleontologists have found signs of a degenerative condition similar to human arthritis in the jaw of a pliosaur, an ancient sea reptile that lived...

A team of European scientists has found several specimens of thrips with pollen grains captured in amber, providing the oldest known evidence of insect...

Scientists have discovered a new fossil species of bear that roamed what is now Spain in the Myocene period. Artist’s reconstruction of Agriarctos beatrix...

Researchers from the Natural History Museum in UK have identified the world’s smallest species of mammoth known to date. The Cretan dwarf mammoth may...

Fossilized remains of a ceratosaurian dinosaur discovered in Australia in 2006 is the first evidence that a major group of meat-eating dinosaurs roamed...

US scientists have discovered fossils of the largest known true crocodile, a creature that roamed what is now Kenya between 2 and 4 million years ago. The...

Canadian fossil collectors from the Peace Region Paleontology Research Center in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, have discovered fossils of a stunning...

Chinese scientists have discovered fossils of remarkable giant flea-like animals that lived millions years ago in what is now China. An artist’s impression...