Paleontology News

Researchers from North America and China determined the date and rate of Earth’s most severe mass extinction. A paper in this week’s journal Science...

Geologists at MIT and Harvard University have unearthed rare, flask-shaped microfossils dating back 635 to 715 million years, representing the oldest known...

The extinct giant ape, Gigantopithecus blacki, is a species of large hominoids that dominated the Pleistocene of South China. Its massive mandible, large...

Long before whales, the oceans of Earth were roamed by a very different kind of air-breathing leviathan. Snaggle-toothed ichthyosaurs larger than school...

Researchers have determined that two unusual wasps in amber found in New Jersey, USA represent a new family of wasps, according to a press release from...

Researchers announced the discovery of a new species of large predatory fish that prowled ancient North American waterways during the Devonian Period,...

Scientists from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Tianyu Museum of Nature in Shandong Province, China, and University of Kansas...

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...

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

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

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

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

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