Nov 14, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Named Bakiribu waridza, the newly-identified species is the first filter-feeding pterosaur from the tropics. Artistic reconstruction of the filter-feeding...

Nov 11, 2025 by News Staff

Scientists from Stellenbosch University and elsewhere have used advanced uranium-lead (U-Pb) dating and elemental mapping to measure trace amounts of uranium...

Nov 11, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, the University of Texas at El Paso and Montana State University have discovered...

Nov 6, 2025 by News Staff

Paleontologists from China and Brazil say they have found a total of 320 phytoliths — microscopic, rigid bodies made of mineral deposits that form...

Oct 31, 2025 by News Staff

Paleontologists have examined an exceptionally well-preserved, near somatically mature tyrannosaur skeleton from the Hell Creek Formation of Montana. Their...

Oct 28, 2025 by Sergio Prostak

The new fossil, encased in a piece of amber from the Kachin region of Myanmar, represents both the first mosquito larva preserved in amber and the first...

Oct 27, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have discovered two partial skulls and three partial jaws from an early-diverging dyrosaurid crocodyliform in the layers of the Quseir...

Oct 23, 2025 by News Staff

Paleontologists have examined two exceptional specimens of the end-Cretaceous, duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens. Using an array of imaging...

Oct 23, 2025 by News Staff

The most iconic mass extinction in Earth history occurred around 66 million years ago, as rapid environmental destruction led to the extinction of around...

Oct 20, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from five fossil specimens found in the Late Cretaceous Two Medicine...

Oct 6, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Cretaceous period in what is now New Mexico has been identified and named by paleontologists...

Oct 6, 2025 by News Staff

The fish supergroup Otophysi, known for their enhanced hearing, comprises two-thirds of living freshwater fish species. Previously, they were thought to...

Oct 3, 2025 by News Staff

A new genus and species of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur has been discovered by a team of paleontologists from Argentina, Brazil and the United Kingdom. Geological...

Sep 29, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Scientifically named Galgadraco zephyrius, the new species represents the first Brazilian azhdarchid pterosaur and bears striking similarities to a species...

Sep 23, 2025 by News Staff

A new member of the megaraptoran dinosaur family has been discovered by a team of paleontologists from Argentina and the United States. Joaquinraptor casali....

Sep 23, 2025 by News Staff

Paleontologists have identified a new species of extinct crocodyliform from the fossilized remains of a juvenile individual found in southwest Montana,...

Sep 22, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of paleontologists from Portugal, Italy, the United States and Belgium has added another species of herbivorous dinosaur to the prehistoric catalog:...

Sep 18, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described two new species of azhdarchid pterosaurs from fossils found in the Late Cretaceous Bayanshiree Formation in Mongolia’s...

Sep 16, 2025 by News Staff

New research suggests dinosaurs were ecosystem engineers that promoted habitat openness in the Late Cretaceous epoch, and their extinction around 66 million...

Sep 8, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new species of the extinct turtle genus Craspedochelys based on a remarkable fossil shell and some of its postcranial...