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...
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...
A focused search for ancient marine vertebrates during a paleontological resource inventory of Mammoth Cave National Park has yielded a wealth of new fossil...
Paleontologists at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC have identified a new genus and species of medium-sized feline from a partial jaw found...
A new genus and species of small-bodied ornithopod dinosaur has been described from a partial jawbone unearthed in Texas, the United States.
Model of the...
Anthropologists in Greece have used facial reconstruction techniques to show how Homo heidelbergensis, a poorly understood relative of Neanderthals that...
Hupehsuchus nanchangensis, a species of marine reptile that lived between 249 and 247 million years ago in what is now China, had soft structures such...
Nihohae matakoi’s tusk-like teeth suggest adaptive advantages for horizontally procumbent teeth in ancient dolphins.
An artist’s impression of Nihohae...
Paleontologists have described an unusual new species of mosasaur based on a fossilized partial jaw and associated tooth crowns from phosphatic deposits...
Crassigyrinus scoticus was a large aquatic predator known from the lower- to mid-Carboniferous period of Scotland and Canada.
3D reconstruction of the...
Mukupirna fortidentata looked a bit like a modern wombat crossed with a marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex).
An artist’s impression of Mukupirna nambensis...
Funcusvermis gilmorei lived in the tropical forests of what is now Arizona, the United States, during the Triassic period, approximately 220 million years...
Dinosaurs evolved a remarkable diversity of dietary adaptations throughout the Mesozoic era, but the origins of different feeding modes are uncertain....
Cryptovaranoides microlanius is an extinct relative of living lizards such as monitor lizards, gila monsters and slow worms.
An artist’s impression of...
Daspletosaurus wilsoni, a tyrannosaurid dinosaur that lived 76.5 million years ago in what is now Montana, the United States, displays a unique combination...
A new genus and species of saber-toothed mammalian carnivore has been identified from a fossil found in California, the United States.
An artist’s impression...
Unlike most plesiosaurs, Serpentisuchops pfisterae had both a long neck and large, elongated jaws.
Serpentisuchops pfisterae used both its neck and snout...
Paleontologists have examined the fossilized lower jaws of Brasilodon quadrangularis, a mouse-sized creature that lived in Brazil during the Late Triassic...
