Aug 3, 2021 by News Staff

A fossilized long-bodied weevil found in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar represents a new tribe, genus and species and dates back some 100 million...

Aug 2, 2021 by News Staff

A team of planetary scientists from the Department of Space Studies at the Southwest Research Institute has combined computer models of asteroid evolution...

Jul 21, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Cretaceous-period hadrosaurid dinosaur Bonapartesaurus rionegrensis had a foot tumor and two painful fractures in the vertebrae of its tail, according...

Jul 12, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of styracosternan hadrosaurid dinosaur has been identified from a fossilized jawbone found in the Spanish province of Castellón. An...

Jul 5, 2021 by News Staff

An international team of archaeologists has found multiple fossil shark teeth within Iron Age cultural layers dating to 8-9th century BCE in the City of...

Jun 30, 2021 by News Staff

The most famous mass extinction was the disappearance of non-avian dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period, 66 million years ago, after ruling the...

Jun 30, 2021 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Florida State University has uncovered the first convincing evidence that several...

Jun 28, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new enantiornithine bird with a well-preserved skull from the Early Cretaceous of northeastern China. The Early Cretaceous...

Jun 22, 2021 by News Staff

About 66 million years ago, a 10-km- (6.2-mile) wide asteroid crashed into Earth near the site of the small town of Chicxulub in what is now Mexico. While...

Jun 21, 2021 by News Staff

The 110-million-year-old footprints discovered in Kent, southern England, were left by three types of dinosaurs, including theropod, ornithopod, and ankylosaur...

Jun 15, 2021 by News Staff

In 2020, paleontologists described an ancient species, Oculudentavis khaungraae, based on a tiny skull trapped in a piece of Cretaceous-period amber from...

Jun 11, 2021 by News Staff

Paleoclimatologists have precisely reconstructed monthly sea surface temperatures at around 50 °N latitude from fossil shells of bivalve mollusks that...

Jun 8, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

The newly-discovered species of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur, named Australotitan cooperensis, is the largest species of dinosaur ever found in Australia. Life...

May 21, 2021 by News Staff

A new genus and species of side-necked turtle that lived 96 million years ago (Cenomanian age of the Late Cretaceous epoch) has been identified from the...

May 13, 2021 by News Staff

Paleontologists have described a new species of mosasaur based on two complete skulls and jaws found in Morocco. An artist’s impression of Pluridens...

May 12, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of horned (ceratopsid) dinosaur has been identified from an incomplete skeleton found in New Mexico, the United States. Life reconstruction...

May 7, 2021 by News Staff

Shuvuuia deserti, a species of alvarezsauroid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous epoch in what is now Mongolia, had extreme low-light vision...

May 5, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Sahonachelys mailakavava, a newly-identified species of pelomedusoid turtle from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar, had an unusually flattened skull, a...

Apr 28, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Yamatosaurus izanagii roamed our planet 71.8 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous epoch. This artist’s illustration of Yamatosaurus izanagii...

Apr 26, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of lithostrotian titanosaur has been identified from a partial skeleton found in northern Chile. Life reconstruction of Arackar...