May 14, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A paper published earlier this month in the journal Cretaceous Research announces the discovery of a previously undocumented genus and species of medium-sized...

May 14, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Euchelicerata is a large group of arthropods comprising horseshoe crabs, scorpions, spiders, mites and ticks, as well as the extinct sea scorpions and...

May 13, 2024 by News Staff

Kromdraai is a Plio-Pleistocene site located in the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa. It has produced diverse and abundant faunal assemblages and key...

May 9, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of fossil pseudoscorpion from the Eocene-period Cambay amber of Western India. Geogaranya valiyaensis....

May 6, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

BPP University paleontologist Matthew Baron has identified a previously unknown carnivorous dinosaur from Dorset, England based on fossils collected in...

May 6, 2024 by Natali Anderson

Paleontologists from Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Kent State University, the University of Michigan and City University of New York have discovered...

May 1, 2024 by News Staff

A new analysis of the distinctive canines of the saber-toothed tiger (Smilodon fatalis) suggests that the baby tooth — one of the deciduous teeth...

Apr 29, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have unearthed the fossilized remains of two new small-bodied pachycephalosaurines: one in the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta and the...

Apr 24, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

An extinct species of giant salmon called Oncorhynchus rastrosus sported a pair of front teeth that projected out from the sides of its mouth like tusks,...

Apr 23, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new stegosaurian genus and species from the Middle Jurassic epoch has been identified from the postcranial remains found in the Middle Atlas Mountains...

Apr 22, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of giant madtsoiid snake that lived in what is now India around 47 million years ago (early Middle Eocene epoch) has been identified...

Apr 18, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Ichthyotitan severnensis lived in the Triassic seas around 202 million years ago and might have measured more than 25 m (82 feet). Ichthyotitan severnensis....

Apr 12, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A remarkable new genus and species of small-sized titanosaurian sauropod has been unearthed in Patagonia, Argentina. Life reconstruction of Titanomachya...

Apr 10, 2024 by News Staff

In new research, paleontologists used X-ray microtomography to characterize the feeding apparatus of an exceptionally well-preserved specimen of the Early...

Apr 9, 2024 by News Staff

Very large unidentified elongate and rounded fossilized bones of uncertain origin recovered from different Late Triassic localities across Europe have...

Apr 8, 2024 by News Staff

Dinosaurs debuted on Earth’s stage in the aftermath of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event, and survived two other Triassic extinction intervals...

Apr 8, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Pareiasaurs were an enigmatic and diverse group of plant-eating animals from the Middle and Late Permian. An artistic reconstruction of Nanoparia luckhoffi....

Apr 5, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Aureia rerehua had unique teeth which might have formed a cage around small fish; these teeth, along with a weak vertex, flexible neck, and the smallest...

Apr 4, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of elasmosaurid — a type of plesiosaur with an extremely long, slender neck — has been identified from the fossilized...

Apr 3, 2024 by News Staff

Two new Jurassic species — the morganucodontan-like Dianoconodon youngi and the pseudotribosphenic shuotheriid Feredocodon chowi — offer key...