The newly-discovered dinosaur species, Lishulong wangi, lies in the heart of the early sauropodomorph-sauropod transition, according to a paper published...
Paleontologists from the Western University of Health Sciences, Brigham Young University, the Arizona Museum of Natural History and Auburn University have...
Paleontologists from the New York State Museum and SUNY Orange have unearthed the fossilized remains of an adult mastodon near Scotchtown, New York, the...
Dubbed Archaeocursor asiaticus, the newly-discovered species is the earliest-diverging ornithischian dinosaur yet discovered in Asia, according to a team...
A new genus and species of monofenestratan pterosaur has been identified from partial cranial and postcranial remains found in Chubut Province, Patagonia,...
These relatives of Pterodactylus will allow paleontologists to reconstruct this flying reptile’s life history from hatchling to adulthood.
Holotype specimen...
Apachyus madseni is the first fossil representative of the enigmatic earwig family Apachyidae.
Apachyus madseni. Image credit: Simonsen et al., doi: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.7.5.7.
The...
Paleontologists have discovered a new species of early gorgonopsian therapsid that was part of an ancient summer wet biome of equatorial Pangea.
Life reconstruction...
Paleontologists have identified a new species of procolophonid reptile from the fossilized skull and jaw fragments found in southwest England.
Life reconstruction...
Palaeospondylus gunni, a small creature with an eel-like body that lived during the Middle Devonian epoch around 390 million years ago, is represented...
Paleontologists in New Zealand have discovered a partial skeleton of platypterygiid ichthyosaur dating to the Cretaceous period.
A pair of Platypterygius...
Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of whiteflies and a psyllid from fossils found in Miocene-period crater lake sediments at Hindon...
Paleontologists have identified a new species of the extinct armadillo genus Parutaetus from fossilized osteoderms collected in the state of Paraná in...
The Neanderthal groups that inhabited a cave in what is now Spain approximately 46,000 years ago gathered and collected fossils, according to a paper published...
Paleontologists from Sweden and Poland have examined hundreds of fossilized samples of feces and vomit from the Polish Basin in central Europe to reconstruct...
Paleontologists have described a new species of fossil temnospondyl amphibian from the Triassic Jelm Formation of Wyoming, preserved in torpedo-shaped...
Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new species of quetzalcoatline azhdarchid pterosaur, Nipponopterus mifunensis, from the Late Cretaceous...
Paleontologists have hypothesized for decades that a major animal group called Ecdysozoa must be older than the Cambrian period, but until now its origins...
