Feb 5, 2016 by News Staff

Rusingoryx atopocranion — a little-known wildebeest-like bovid that lived in equatorial East Africa 100,000 – 50,000 years ago (late Pleistocene)...

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:...

Jan 21, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have discovered what they say is a new theropod dinosaur that lived 200 million years ago in Wales. Dracoraptor hanigani restored as a...

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 10, 2015 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of hornless ceratopsian dinosaur, called Hualianceratops wucaiwanensis, in China. Life...

Dec 8, 2015 by News Staff

A multinational group of paleontologists has determined that the time elapsed between the emergence of early dinosauromorphs (dinosaur relatives) and the...

Dec 2, 2015 by Sergio Prostak

Hundreds of footprints left behind by massive herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs have been discovered on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. An artist’s impression...

Dec 1, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

A large team of American scientists has found evidence of blood vessel-like structures in the fossil of Brachylophosaurus canadensis, a mid-sized duck-billed...

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 5, 2015 by Sergio Prostak

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...

Nov 4, 2015 by News Staff

Using digital models and computer analyses, a paleontologist at the University of Bristol, UK, has studied the muscle strain during jaw opening of three...

Oct 28, 2015 by News Staff

Paleontologists from the University of Alberta have unearthed an amazing ~ 75 million-year-old fossil of an ostrich-like dinosaur known as Ornithomimus. Reconstruction...

Oct 21, 2015 by News Staff

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...

Oct 17, 2015 by News Staff

Some species of dinosaurs had the ability to warm themselves by drawing heat from the Sun, according to an international team of paleontologists from the...

Oct 15, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists from Belgium, France and Mongolia, has unearthed an exceptional block of perinatal specimens (babies) of the giant...

Oct 9, 2015 by News Staff

The most comprehensive and accurate avian tree of life has been published in the current issue of the journal Nature. Phylogeny of birds. The five major,...

Oct 8, 2015 by News Staff

Early birds were capable of performing aerodynamic feats in a manner similar to their modern-day counterparts, according to a team of paleontologists from...

Oct 5, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists has found a specimen of a previously unknown species of mammal from the early Paleocene, about 65 million years...

Oct 2, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of scientists from India and the United States has uncovered evidence that a massive comet or asteroid impact on Earth 66 million...