Paleontology News

Using a clinical scanning device, researchers in Switzerland have successfully captured CT images of the 17,000-year-old tusk of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus...

Over 50,000 years ago, Leptoptilos robustus — an extinct species of large-bodied stork around 1.8 m tall — co-existed with mysterious miniature...

A new genus and species of caseid synapsid that lived 264 million years ago (Permian period) has been identified from a partial but well-preserved postcranial...

Paleontologists in Bulgaria have described a new species of the panda genus Agriarctos, from two fossilized teeth dating to 5.5 million years ago. Life...

Paleontologists have unearthed the fossilized remains of ancient fish, marine reptiles, squids, rare insects and more in a farmer’s field in Gloucestershire,...

Paleontologists have found several fossilized bones of plesiosaurs — traditionally thought to be sea creatures — in the Kem Kem beds, a 100-million-year-old...

In March 2022, College of Charleston’s Professor Scott Persons and colleagues suggested that Tyrannosaurus rex should be reclassified as three species:...

A new genus and species of anatid bird has been identified from a fossilized wing bone found in Central Otago, New Zealand. The wing bone of the Bannockburn...

Among modern animals, only mammals and birds are warm-blooded, and the ability to keep ourselves warm has enabled mammals to survive in icy weather and...

Ausichicrinites zelenskyyi, the first Jurassic comatulid (feather star) from the African continent, has been named in honor of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the...

Qikiqtania wakei closely resembles Tiktaalik roseae — the important transitional animal considered a missing link between fish and the earliest limbed...

A paleontologist from Oregon State University has found a new species of flower together with a new parasitic wasp species in a piece of amber excavated...

Paleontologists have described a new species of the enigmatic stem-salamander genus Marmorerpeton from the well-preserved fossils found on the Isle of...

In the new research, paleontologists described and illustrated the endocasts (braincases) of six Paleozoic lungfish species from superb 3D fossil material,...

Paleontologists from the University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum have examined 268 specimens of Stanleycaris hirpex — a radiodont that...

Balhuticaris voltae is the largest bivalved arthropod to date, at almost double the size of the previous record-holder, Nereocaris exilis. Life reconstruction...

Meraxes gigas, a huge meat-eating dinosaur that lived in Argentina some 94 million years ago, had short arms like Tyrannosaurus rex. Meraxes gigas. Image...

A new genus and species of varanopid eupelycosaur that lived during the Carboniferous period — the oldest tree-climbing reptile on record —...

Of the many peculiarities that enable the modern giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) to adapt to life as a bamboo eater, its extra ‘thumb’ is the...