The chronology and taxonomy of the ancient hominin genus Australopithecus in South Africa have long been controversial, with the Sterkfontein cave system...
Vampyronassa rhodanica is an ancient species of cephalopod that lived in the Jurassic oceans some 164 million years ago.
Life reconstruction of Vampyronassa...
Gansuyaena megalotis, a small-bodied hyaenid that lived in what is now the Chinese province of Gansu between 15 and 12 million years ago (Miocene epoch),...
Paleontologists have described a new species of large-sized amphicyonid carnivore from a fossilized mandible found in France.
Tartarocyon cazanavei. Image...
In egg-laying amniotes (reptiles, birds and monotremes), the developing embryo is tethered to a number of the extraembryonic membranes that deliver oxygen...
Paleontologists have unearthed a well-preserved cervical vertebra of a medium-sized abelisaurid ceratosaur in the Bahariya Oasis of the Western Desert...
Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of ancient gecko from an articulated near-complete skull found in Germany.
Geiseleptes delfinoi...
Palaeospondylus gunni, a small creature with an eel-like body that lived 390 million years ago, is one of the most enigmatic fossil vertebrates, and its...
Scientists from West Virginia University have found ancient cells of prokaryotes and eukaryotes within fluid inclusions in halite crystals from the Neoproterozoic...
Paleontologists have found insect borings in a fruit fossil of the genus Cocos (coconuts) from the Paleocene Cerrejón Formation of Colombia. Their findings...
Unearthed in the Swiss Alps between 1976 and 1990, the fossils include the largest ichthyosaur tooth ever found.
The habitat and animals that were found...
In 2017, paleontologists found 3.75- to 4.28-billion-year-old microscopic filaments and tubes, which appeared to have been made by iron-loving bacteria,...
New research led by Australian Museum paleontologists shows that monotremes are the last survivors of a diverse set of fossil species that once roamed...
The newly-identified species of extinct diving duck is the fourth species in the genus Manuherikia.
An artist’s impression of a Manuherikia duck. Image...
Paleontologists have identified a new species of tuatara-like sphenodontian reptile from dozens of fossilized specimens found in Arizona, the United States.
Holotype...
An analysis of over three dozen specimens of Tyrannosaurus rex finds that they exhibit such a remarkable degree of proportional variations that the pattern...
A new genus and species of abelisaurid theropod has been identified from a partially complete skull found in northwestern Argentina.
An artist’s reconstruction...
Erratus sperare, a new species of ancient marine arthropod from eastern Yunnan, China, had unique trunk appendages that represent an intermediate stage...
