Paleoanthropologists have examined and reconstructed DAN5, a 1.5-million-year-old fossilized skull of early Homo erectus found in Gona in the Afar region...
Paleontologists have unearthed a dense assemblage of dugong remains at the site of Al Maszhabiya in the Early Miocene Dam Formation of Qatar. This fossil...
New research led by scientists from the University of Cambridge and Latrobe University challenges the classification of the Little Foot fossil as Australopithecus...
A new genus and species of nimravid from the middle Oligocene epoch has been identified from the fossilized remains found in northern China. The discovery...
Paleontologists have unearthed a 66-million-year-old mosasaurine tooth in the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota, the United States. This discovery adds...
Paleontologists have performed a comprehensive anatomical reassessment of the fossilized remains of two coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs from the Early...
Nanotyrannus lancensis — long thought by many to be a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex — was in fact a fully mature, distinct species of smaller tyrannosaurid,...
The Carreras Pampa site in the Torotoro National Park, Bolivia, records 1,321 trackways and 289 solitary tracks, totaling 16,600 theropod dinosaur tracks;...
Anacondas are among the largest living snakes in the world. They are usually 4 to 5 m long and in rare cases can reach 7 m. In new research, paleontologists...
A new species of the sauropod dinosaur genus Mamenchisaurus has been discovered in China dating back to the Late Jurassic epoch.
Life reconstruction of...
The Lamniformes are an order of sharks commonly known as mackerel sharks. It includes some of the most familiar species of sharks, such as the great white...
In 2009, paleoanthropologists found eight bones from the foot of an ancient human ancestor in 3.4-million-year-old sediments at the paleontological site...
In new research, an international team of researchers used high-resolution 3D imaging techniques, including microCT scanning, to reconstruct brain shapes...
Paleontologists have analyzed an exceptionally long sauropod trackway at the West Gold Hill Dinosaur Tracksite in Colorado, the United States. Their results...
Teasing out biochemical information from ancient organic-rich sediments, notably the timing of the emergence of photosynthesis relative to the inferred...
The exceptionally long neck of Lijiangosaurus yongshengensis contained 42 cervical vertebrae, according to a research team led by paleontologists from...
Named Bakiribu waridza, the newly-identified species is the first filter-feeding pterosaur from the tropics.
Artistic reconstruction of the filter-feeding...
A new genus and species of pseudosuchian archosaur has been identified from the fossil remains found in southern Brazil.
Tainrakuasuchus bellator. Image...
Named Wakkaoolithus godthelpi, this eggshell type belonged to mekosuchine crocodiles and represent the oldest crocodilian eggshells ever found in Australia.
Mekosuchine...
