Oct 15, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of early bird from the Late Jurassic Zhenghe Fauna of southeastern China. The bird was flightless,...

Oct 12, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new species of belemnite — an extinct relative of today’s cuttlefish and squid — has been identified from two bullet-shaped fossils found...

Oct 9, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of teleosaurid thalattosuchian based on two specimens found in eastern Morocco. The ancient predator...

Oct 8, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Megacauda sungei, a furry, otter-size mammaliaform that lived in what is now Inner Mongolia, China, some 165 million years ago, was semiaquatic, swimming...

Sep 23, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Dr. Dirk Knaust, a geologist with the Norwegian energy company Equinor ASA, has identified plesiosaur regurgitalites — the technical term for fossilized...

Sep 14, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists from Fundación Dinópolis have identified the first confirmed fossils of the genus Diplodocus found outside North America. The Spanish...

Sep 11, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Long before whales ruled the oceans, dolphin-shaped marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs patrolled the same waters. New research from the Natural History...

Aug 25, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Using lasers, computer models and AI, researchers reconstructed the calls of 165-million-year-old relatives of modern crickets and katydids from fossilized...

Aug 17, 2026 by Natali Anderson

Archaeopteryx — the first ever bird to inhabit the Earth — may have hopped its way into the air, rather than launching with the single powerful...

Aug 11, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

For more than a century, paleontologists studying the Late Jurassic seas that once covered southern Germany believed only one species of ichthyosaur, Aegirosaurus...

Aug 4, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists working in southern China have identified a new species of sauropod dinosaur that appears to belong to a group never before documented...

Jul 22, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

For several decades, Liopleurodon ferox — a short-necked marine reptile that patrolled the seas of what is now England and France some 163 million...

Jul 21, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in India have unearthed a partial skeleton of a diminutive, previously unknown neosauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic rocks of Gujarat’s...

Jul 9, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists working in northeastern Thailand have identified a new species of mamenchisaurid sauropod dinosaur, offering fresh evidence that a group...

Jul 7, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in China have described a small, previously unknown Jurassic bird whose short tail offers new evidence for how the earliest birds traded...

May 19, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of early monofenestratan pterosaur based on a nearly complete and well-preserved fossil skeleton...

May 11, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Fossils unearthed on a remote Argentine ranch belong to a new genus and species of macronarian sauropod dinosaur, according to an international team of...

May 8, 2026 by Natali Anderson

A comprehensive new review by Field Museum of Natural History paleontologists draws together the latest fossil evidence — including analysis of five...

May 4, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of massopodan sauropodomorph that lived during the Early Jurassic epoch has been identified from a partial skeleton unearthed in...

Apr 3, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Deep inside a limestone cave in western Cuba, paleontologists have found the most complete ichthyosaur skeleton yet found on the island. Ophthalmosaurid...