Sep 28, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

A paper published today in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society announces the discovery of Garumbatitan morellensis, a previously undocumented...

Sep 25, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new species of cricket found in a piece of Cretaceous-period amber from northern Myanmar. Qiongqi crinalis: (A) habitus...

Sep 21, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have analyzed 125-million-year-old feathers from a dinosaur species called Sinornithosaurus as well as feathers of the early bird Confuciusornis...

Sep 20, 2023 by Sergio Prostak

Paleontologists from Fukui Prefectural University and the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum have added another species of theropod dinosaur to the prehistoric...

Sep 19, 2023 by News Staff

Paleontologists have found 130-million-year-old trace fossils from abyssal plain turbidites of the ancient Tethys Ocean. Combined with nannofossil dating,...

Sep 15, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Fossils of a small hypsilophodontid dinosaur unearthed on the Isle of Wight in southern England have been recognized as belonging to a new genus and species. Life...

Sep 7, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of titanosaurian dinosaur being named Igai semkhu has been described by Midwestern University paleontologist Eric Gorscak and his...

Aug 30, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

A family of medium-sized iguanodontian dinosaurs called the Rhabdodontidae was one of the most important dinosaur groups inhabiting the ancient European...

Aug 23, 2023 by News Staff

Paleontologists have unearthed the fossilized remains of two T. rex cousins in the Ouled Abdoun Basin, northern Morocco. Fossils have been found of several...

Aug 15, 2023 by News Staff

Dubbed the Coliseum, the newly-discovered paleontological site contains ornithopod, ceratopsid, and large and small-bodied avian and non-avian theropod...

Aug 10, 2023 by News Staff

A new genus and species of eutherian mammal has been described from a handful of tiny teeth found in the Prince Creek Formation in northern Alaska, the...

Aug 4, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Fossil plant phytoliths from the digestive tract of Jeholornis prima — an extinct species of bird that lived in what is now China during the Early...

Jul 31, 2023 by News Staff

Bees are the most significant pollinators of flowering plants. This partnership began approximately 120 million years ago, but the uncertainty of how and...

Jul 19, 2023 by News Staff

The unusual fossil from around 125 million years ago shows a dramatic moment in time when a species of badger-like carnivorous mammal called Repenomamus...

Jul 19, 2023 by News Staff

To be able to fly soon after hatching from the egg, a bird or pterosaur must have well-developed wings. Studies of small-bodies pterosaur species from...

Jul 17, 2023 by Sergio Prostak

A new genus and species of iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur being named Calvarius rapidus has been described by a duo of paleontologists from the Universitat...

Jul 11, 2023 by News Staff

The evolution of life on Earth has changed dramatically at tens of million-year time scales. However, the causal mechanisms of these changes remain unclear....

Jul 7, 2023 by News Staff

The specimen provides the first unequivocal evidence of immature feathers in the Mesozoic fossil record. A small piece of Burmese amber preserving feathers...

Jun 27, 2023 by News Staff

Placental mammals — the evolutionary lineage that includes humans — co-existed with non-avian dinosaurs for a short time before the dinosaurs...

Jun 26, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Gonkoken nanoi is the first non-hadrosaurid duck-billed dinosaur known from the southern supercontinent of Gondwana. Gonkoken nanoi. Image credit: Gabriel...