Paleontology News

U.S. and Chinese paleontologists say they have unearthed the fossils of what is the oldest and most primitive pterodactyloid pterosaur. This creature lived...

Paleontologists have described a new species of assassin fly found preserved in two pieces of 100-million-year-old Burmese amber. Burmapogon bruckschi,...

Eocasea martini, a carnivorous animal that lived in what is today Kansas during Carboniferous period, about 300 million years ago, is the oldest known...

Paleontologists from the American Museum of Natural History have described a shark species that lived during Carboniferous period, about 325 million years...

A new paper published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology describes 30 Jurassic creatures – five salamanders, one anuran, two lizards, 13 pterosaurs,...

A 305-million-year-old fossil found in eastern France reveals that primitive harvestmen had two sets of eyes rather than one. Reconstruction of Hastocularis...

A study led by Prof Luis Buatois from the University of Saskatchewan provides new evidence to understand the development of life at Ediacaran-Cambrian...

Nimbacinus dicksoni, an ancient meat-eating marsupial that lived in Australia during Oligocene and Miocene between 24 and 5.3 million years ago, had the...

Paleontologists from China, the United States and United Kingdom have discovered a 3-inch-long fossil of a prehistoric shrimp-like animal with the earliest...

Scientists say they have made a surprising discovery – a fossil bone of an extinct turtle species scientifically known as Atlantochelys mortoni. In...

Paleontologists led by Dr Maomin Wang from Capital Normal University in China say the newly discovered stick insect Cretophasmomima melanogramma may have...

U.S. paleontologists have discovered a new raptor dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Cretaceous period, about 66 million years ago. This...

Paleontologists led by Dr Rachel Racicot of Yale University have described a new species of extinct porpoise that lived off the coast of what is now California...

Paleontologists from Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas, have discovered the fossils of a new diminutive tyrannosaur that lived in what...

Two paleontologists from Portugal have described a new species of giant dinosaur that lived in what is today Europe during the Jurassic period, about 150...

Paleontologists and anthropologists led by Dr Kieran McNulty from the University of Minnesota have discovered definitive evidence of the widespread, dense,...

According to new research on the first birds and bird-like dinosaurs (Paraves) which lived 160 to 120 million years ago, bird wings and small body size...

Paleontologists led by Dr Xiao-Chun Wu from Canadian Museum of Nature say they have discovered a new genus and species of reptile that lived in what is...

A new study published in the journal Geology suggests extinct arthropods known as trilobites were likely able to venture into very shallow water of the...