According to a new research published in the journal Nature Communications, ichthyosaurs were driven to extinction by climate change and their own failure...
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...
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...
A team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of primitive duck-billed dinosaur, called Eotrachodon orientalis, in Alabama.
Eotrachodon orientalis:...
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...
A new species of armored dinosaur has been identified from bones discovered more than two decades ago in Australia.
An artist impression of Kunbarrasaurus...
Paleontologists have discovered what they say is a completely unexpected new mosasaur that lived 72 million years ago in Japan.
Life restoration of Phosphorosaurus...
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...
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...
Paleontologists have discovered what they say is a new giant raptor that lived in what is now South Dakota during the Maastrichtian stage of the Upper...
A distinctive pattern of tooth marks on a 66-million-year-old tyrannosaur bone found in eastern Wyoming offers one of the best evidences yet that tyrannosaurid...
Paleontologists from the University of Alberta have unearthed an amazing ~ 75 million-year-old fossil of an ostrich-like dinosaur known as Ornithomimus.
Reconstruction...
A discovery of ancient turtle bones in southern Utah has led a University of Texas paleontologist to identify a new species of long-extinct, pig-snouted...
An international team of paleontologists from Belgium, France and Mongolia, has unearthed an exceptional block of perinatal specimens (babies) of the giant...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered a 125-million-year-old ancient mammal fossil, which has been named a new species, in Spain. According...
Early birds were capable of performing aerodynamic feats in a manner similar to their modern-day counterparts, according to a team of paleontologists from...
Paleontologist Prof. Kenshu Shimada of DePaul University and his colleagues have discovered a new genus of extinct planktivorous (plankton-eating) sharks.
Pseudomegachasma...
A new species of hadrosaurid dinosaur has been identified from bones discovered in the Prince Creek Formation of northern Alaska.
An artist’s depiction...
A remarkable new species of theropod dinosaur has been unearthed in an underground mine in north-central New South Wales, Australia.
Illustration of the...
