Jan 29, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A duo of paleontologists in Argentina has identified a new genus and species of gigantic titanosaur from several fossilized specimens found in the Patagonian...

Jan 8, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in Argentina have found fossil fragments from a new genus and species of rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur that walked the Earth more than...

Oct 5, 2023 by Natali Anderson

For the first time, footprints made by an extinct terror bird (family Phorusrhacidae) have been identified by paleontologists. Holotype trackway of Rionegrina...

Feb 21, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Patagorhynchus pascuali represents the first Cretaceous toothed monotreme from the supercontinent Gondwana. Life reconstruction of Patagorhynchus pascuali....

Feb 6, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of giant colossosaurian titanosaur has been identified from fossils found in Patagonia, Argentina. An artist’s reconstruction...

Dec 22, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of enantiornithine bird has been described from a partial right humerus found in southern Patagonia, Argentina. An artist’s impression...

Dec 5, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of nodosaurid ankylosaur has been identified from fossils found in Patagonia, Argentina. Life reconstruction of Patagopelta cristata....

Sep 6, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur has been described from the fossils found in Patagonia, Argentina. An artist’s reconstruction...

Aug 18, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of pachycormiform fish that lived 150 million years ago has been identified from fossils found in the Neuquén Basin of Argentina. Life...

Aug 12, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in Argentina have unveiled a new genus and species of armored thyreophoran dinosaur from the Cretaceous period. Life reconstruction of...

Jul 7, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

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...

May 25, 2022 by Sergio Prostak

Thanatosdrakon amaru had a wingspan of nearly 9 m (29.5 feet) and lived in what is now Argentina during the Cretaceous period. Life reconstruction of Thanatosdrakon...

May 2, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new species of large-bodied megaraptoran dinosaur from fossilized remains found in Patagonia, Argentina. Life reconstruction...

Feb 22, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of abelisaurid theropod has been identified from a partially complete skull found in northwestern Argentina. An artist’s reconstruction...

Nov 19, 2021 by News Staff

A 30-year-old woman from the city of Esperanza, Argentina — the so-called Esperanza Patient — appears to be the second person whose immune...

Oct 29, 2021 by News Staff

New research demonstrates that two common, widespread, and endemic Patagonian bird species — the chucao tapaculo (Scelorchilus rubecula) and the...

Oct 22, 2021 by News Staff

Paleontologists have analyzed an exceptional fossil assemblage from the Laguna Colorada Formation in Patagonia, Argentina, that includes 193-million-year-old...

Sep 10, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described in detail for the first time the scaly skin of Carnotaurus sastrei, an abelisaurid theropod that lived in South America...

Sep 6, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have unearthed the fossilized remains of large teratornithid birds at four localities in central Argentina. Teratornis sitting on the extinct...

Aug 26, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

A three-dimensionally preserved skull of a previously unknown Triassic-period reptile from Argentina illuminates the origin of lepidosauromorphs (lizards,...