Apr 3, 2024 by News Staff

In new research, a team of paleontologists examined the tooth structure of Feredocodon chowi, a new species of shuotheriid mammaliaform that lived in what...

Apr 1, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new genus and species of saltasauroid titanosaurian dinosaur, based on the fossilized remains found in...

Mar 27, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and elsewhere have found a partial body fossil...

Mar 26, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of paleontologists from California State Polytechnic University and elsewhere has described a new genus and species of shark-like fish from the...

Mar 25, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have unearthed two fossilized phalanges of an ancient carnivorous bird on Seymour Island, Antarctica. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction...

Mar 21, 2024 by Natali Anderson

Pebanista yacuruna is the closest relative of living South Asian river dolphins (genus Platanista). Artistic reconstruction of Pebanista yacuruna. Image...

Mar 19, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a bizarre new species of mosasaurid based on a skull and parts of the skeleton collected from a phosphate mine southeast...

Mar 18, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of spinosaurid dinosaur being named Riojavenatrix lacustris has been discovered by University of the Basque Country paleontologist...

Mar 15, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of plesiosaur that lived near the onset of the Early-Middle Jurassic turnover has been identified from two exquisite, three-dimensionally...

Mar 14, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Peltocephalus maturin possibly reached about 1.8 m (5.9 feet) in carapace length and is among the largest freshwater turtles ever found. This finding presents...

Mar 13, 2024 by News Staff

Paleontologists have examined a large assemblage of dinosaur tracks and fossilized plants from the Nanushuk Formation, which crops out over much of the...

Mar 11, 2024 by News Staff

Paleontologists have described a new species of enantiornithine bird with a toothless beak from the Jehol avifauna of China. The discovery pushes back...

Mar 8, 2024 by News Staff

The lifestyle of spinosaurid dinosaurs has been a topic of lively debate ever since the unveiling of important new skeletal parts for Spinosaurus aegyptiacus...

Mar 7, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

The 390-million-year-old forest landscape, archived within the Eifelian Hangman Sandstone Formation of Somerset and Devon in England, is roughly 4 million...

Mar 4, 2024 by News Staff

Paleontologists have described a new species of the crab genus Pseudocarcinus from large-sized fossilized specimens found at Taranaki, North Island, New...

Mar 4, 2024 by News Staff

Paleontologists from the University of California, Davis, and Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History estimate that Perucetus colossus,...

Feb 26, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of ankylosaurine dinosaur has been identified from two specimens found in southeastern China. The type specimens of Datai yingliangis...

Feb 23, 2024 by News Staff

Paleontologists from Germany, China, the United Kingdom and the United States have described in detail Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, a remarkable marine...

Feb 19, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

In a new paper published on January 31, 2024 in the journal Historical Biology, paleontologists announced the discovery of a previously undocumented species...

Feb 15, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of dwarf lambeosaurine hadrosaurid has come to light in Moroccan rocks dating to the Late Cretaceous epoch, some 68 million years...