Paleontologists have described a new species of the ankylosaurid dinosaur genus Zhongyuansaurus using a specimen found in China’s Henan province.
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Using an innovative digital fossil-mining approach, paleontologists analyzed more than 250 fossil beaks from 40 ancient squid species. Their results suggest...
Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of mid-sized pareiasaur from two fossilized specimes found in China in 2018.
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Paleontologists have desribed a new species of large passerine bird based the fossilized remains from the Bannockburn Formation near St Bathans in Otago,...
These fossil fungi from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber are from the same family as the zombie-ant fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, which has gained widespread...
Paleontologists have analyzed the body profiles of Ediacaran-Cambrian organisms by using trace fossils as proxies for body fossils.
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A remarkable new genus and species of neornithischian dinosaur being named Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae has been identified from a three-dimensionally...
The discovery of Litoria tylerantiqua suggests that Australian treefrogs (pelodryadids) were present in Australia by the Early Eocene, when the continent...
In new research, paleontologists combined data on the distribution of Triassic pterosauromorph (pterosaur + lagerpetid) fossils with information on the...
A ream of paleontologists at the University of Zurich reports a chronic case of osteomyelitis (bone tissue infection) in Plateosaurus trossingensis, one...
A partial skeleton found in the Fernie Formation in British Columbia, Canada, back in 1916 represents a new genus and species of an extinct marine reptile...
Scientifically named Khankhuuluu mongoliensis, the newly-identified tyrannosauroid species is the closest-known ancestor to Tyrannosaurus rex.
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China has long been considered one of the locations for original domestication of wild boars (Sus scrofa) but tracking the initial process has always been...
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of gnathosaurine pterosaur, named Spathagnathus roeperi, from a fossilized specimen found in the...
Diamantinasaurus matildae, a species of sauropod dinosaur that lived around 94 million years ago (mid-Cretaceous period), ate conifers, seed ferns, and...
Paleontologists have recovered the dinosaur skull material from beds of the Upper Jurassic Villar del Arzobispo Formation in Teruel, Spain, and confidently...
The discovery of a fossil blue-stain fungus colonizing the insect-infested conifer wood Xenoxylon phyllocladoides in China’s Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation...
Paranthropus robustus is a well-documented hominin species with no genetic evidence reported so far. It lived between 2 million and 1.2 million years ago...
