Sep 14, 2015 by News Staff

A remarkable new species of theropod dinosaur has been unearthed in an underground mine in north-central New South Wales, Australia. Illustration of the...

Aug 27, 2015 by News Staff

A fossilized jawbone from a newly-described species of acrodontan iguana, Gueragama sulamericana, that lived about 80 million years ago has been unearthed...

Jul 24, 2015 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists, led by Dr Dave Martill from the University of Portsmouth, UK, has found a unique four-legged specimen in the Crato Formation...

Jun 4, 2015 by News Staff

The well-preserved fossil of a previously unknown toothed bird that lived during the Cretaceous period, some 115 million years ago, has been found in the...

Mar 5, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of entomologists led by Dr Niklas Wahlberg from the University of Turku in Finland has described an enigmatic new species of moth...

Nov 5, 2014 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists led by Prof David Krause of Stony Brook University has discovered a groundhog-like animal that lived in what is now Madagascar...

May 18, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists led by Dr Pablo Gallina of CONICET in Buenos Aires have discovered a new sauropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Argentina during the...

Dec 23, 2013 by News Staff

For the first time, researchers have found kimberlite – a type of volcanic rock that often bears diamonds – in Antarctica. This map shows the...

Oct 29, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new study published in the journal Palaeontology, two footprints found at Dinosaur Cove in southern Victoria are the oldest avian tracks...

Oct 22, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Entomologists Dr Renzo Perissinotto from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and Dr Philippe Moretto from France...

Sep 3, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Dr Robert Gess from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg has discovered what he says is the oldest known land-living animal from Gondwana,...

Jul 5, 2013 by Natali Anderson

British-Australian team of scientists has revealed the past position of the Australian, Antarctic and Indian tectonic plates at 165 million years ago,...

May 8, 2012 by News Staff

Fossilized remains of a ceratosaurian dinosaur discovered in Australia in 2006 is the first evidence that a major group of meat-eating dinosaurs roamed...