Nov 11, 2024 by Natali Anderson

A new genus and species of ankylosaur has been identified from an articulated and partial skeleton found in 1986 in southern China. The artistic reconstruction...

Nov 5, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of early-diverging oviraptorosaurian dinosaur has been identified from two specimens found in Inner Mongolia, China. Life reconstruction...

Oct 25, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have found a fossilized jaw fragment and three isolated teeth from a new, relatively large (by Late Cretaceous standards) metatherian species...

Oct 23, 2024 by News Staff

Theropod dinosaur trackways can be used as indirect evidence of pre-avian aerial behavior, according to new research. The animal responsible for Dromaeosauriformipes...

Oct 18, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have identified a species of medium-sized iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur from two specimens found in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina. Life...

Oct 11, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists say they’ve identified a new species of marine reptile in the ophthalmosaurid genus Platypterygius that lived approximately 125 million...

Oct 9, 2024 by News Staff

Paleontologists have described three new enantiornithine birds from the Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation, two of which represent new avisaurid species....

Oct 7, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of long-snouted notosuchian from the fragmentary remains found in Brazil’s Adamantina Formation. Epoidesuchus...

Oct 4, 2024 by News Staff

Fungus-farming ants cultivate multiple species of fungi for food, but the history of fungus-ant co-evolution is poorly known. In a new study published...

Sep 30, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Fossilized remains found in Patagonia, Argentina back in 2009 represent a new genus and species of plant-eating dinosaur that belonged to a group called...

Sep 26, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new species in the tyrannosaurid dinosaur genus Labocania, based on a partial skeleton found in Coahuila,...

Sep 10, 2024 by News Staff

Paleontologists have found the fossilized seeds of gymnosperm trees — relatives of today’s conifers and ginkgos — in stomachs of two specimens...

Sep 10, 2024 by News Staff

The newly-discovered footprints of theropod and ornithopod dinosaurs date back to the Early Cretaceous epoch, over 120 million years ago, when Australia...

Sep 9, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists from the University of Bath and elsewhere have described a new genus and species of kritosaurin hadrosaurid dinosaur from a partial skull...

Sep 9, 2024 by News Staff

Paleontologists have unearthed the fossilized remains of two different large-bodied azhdarchoid pterosaur species — the new species Inabtanin alarabia...

Sep 5, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists say they’ve discovered the fossilized bones of a new type of early-branching neoceratopsian dinosaur in the Japanese prefecture of Hyogo. Life...

Sep 4, 2024 by News Staff

In a paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience, scientists offer a new explanation for a string of severe environmental crises, called oceanic anoxic...

Sep 4, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have unearthed the skeletal remains from a previously unknown species of lithostrotian titanosaur at the fossil site of Lo Hueco, Cuenca,...

Sep 2, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of non-hadrosaurid hadrosauroid dinosaur, named Qianjiangsaurus changshengi, has been identified from a specimen found in 2022...

Aug 27, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have added another species to the Cretaceous-period dinosaur fauna of Europe, and this one was found in Normandy, France. An abelisaurid...