Jun 2, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

In a paper published last week in the journal Current Biology, scientists described a new species of trap-jaw ant found in 99 million-year-old pieces of...

May 26, 2016 by News Staff

The end-Cretaceous mass extinction event, also known as the K/T extinction — the event that wiped out the dinosaurs as well as nearly 50% of all...

May 19, 2016 by Natali Anderson

A new species of ceratopsid (horned) dinosaur has been identified from bones discovered a decade ago in the Judith River Formation in Montana. An artist’s...

Apr 27, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A remarkable new species of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur being named Sarmientosaurus musacchioi has been discovered by a team of paleontologists led...

Apr 25, 2016 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists led by University of Leeds scientist Dr. Alexander Dunhill has used the so-called ‘Network Theory’ to visually depict the...

Apr 22, 2016 by News Staff

Ecological changes following the dinosaur-ravaging Chicxulub impact 65 million years ago may have been more detrimental to meat-eating bird-like dinosaurs,...

Apr 22, 2016 by News Staff

A rare specimen of the titanosaur Rapetosaurus krausei from the Cretaceous of Madagascar sheds light on early life in the smallest stage of one of the...

Mar 30, 2016 by News Staff

A large team of paleontologists led by University of Liverpool scientist Dr. Karl Bates has developed computer models of the bodies of sauropod dinosaurs...

Mar 19, 2016 by Sergio Prostak

A new species of dromaeosaurid (raptor) dinosaur — Boreonykus certekorum — that thrived in the cold has been discovered in a remote part of...

Mar 15, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new dinosaur cousin of T. rex – named Timurlengia euotica — has been found in the Kyzylkum Desert, northern Uzbekistan. A reconstruction of Timurlengia...

Mar 10, 2016 by News Staff

According to a new research published in the journal Nature Communications, ichthyosaurs were driven to extinction by climate change and their own failure...

Mar 1, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A partially preserved femur from the Kem Kem beds of Morocco has revealed the size of a large-bodied theropod dinosaur called abelisaur. An artist’s...

Feb 9, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A group of paleontologists from the United States, the UK and China has discovered two new suspension-feeding species of the bony fish genus Rhinconichthys. Artist’s...

Jan 26, 2016 by Natali Anderson

A team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of primitive duck-billed dinosaur, called Eotrachodon orientalis, in Alabama. Eotrachodon orientalis:...

Dec 17, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new species of ornithopod dinosaur has been discovered in Spain dating back 125 million years to the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous epoch. Life...

Dec 11, 2015 by Natali Anderson

A new species of armored dinosaur has been identified from bones discovered more than two decades ago in Australia. An artist impression of Kunbarrasaurus...

Dec 9, 2015 by Natali Anderson

Paleontologists have discovered what they say is a completely unexpected new mosasaur that lived 72 million years ago in Japan. Life restoration of Phosphorosaurus...

Dec 3, 2015 by Sergio Prostak

A new species of extinct turtle has been named based on a fossil from the Yixian Formation, part of the famous ‘Jehol Biota.’ Reconstruction of Xiaochelys...

Nov 30, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

A 78-million-year-old herbivorous horned dinosaur has been identified from a fossil found in the Tar Heel Formation (Black Creek Group) in North Carolina. The...

Nov 27, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new analysis of the Cretaceous fossil Dinilysia patagonica is helping paleontologists solve an old scientific puzzle – how ancient snakes lost...