Jul 8, 2014 by News Staff

“Jurassic Britain was a ‘dinosaur paradise’ with more than 100 different species described in the scientific literature to date,” sys to Dean Lomax,...

Jul 4, 2014 by News Staff

German paleontologists led by Dr Oliver Rauhut of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany, have discovered a new specimen of Archaeopteryx...

Jun 25, 2014 by News Staff

An international group of paleontologists has described an aquatic larva of a prehistoric fly that lived in what is now Inner Mongolia, China, about 165...

May 30, 2014 by News Staff

Dr Mark Young from the University of Edinburgh and his colleagues have discovered a unique fossilized tooth belonging to Dakosaurus maximus, a prehistoric...

Apr 24, 2014 by News Staff

U.S. and Chinese paleontologists say they have unearthed the fossils of what is the oldest and most primitive pterodactyloid pterosaur. This creature lived...

Apr 16, 2014 by News Staff

A new paper published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology describes 30 Jurassic creatures – five salamanders, one anuran, two lizards, 13 pterosaurs,...

Mar 6, 2014 by News Staff

Two paleontologists from Portugal have described a new species of giant dinosaur that lived in what is today Europe during the Jurassic period, about 150...

Nov 7, 2013 by News Staff

A team of scientists has found a well-preserved, 165-million-year-old fossil of copulating froghoppers, Anthoscytina perpetua, at the Daohugou village...

Aug 28, 2013 by News Staff

Recently discovered fossils of Leedsichthys – the biggest fish that ever swam in oceans – show that the prehistoric creature could grow to 26 –...

Jan 25, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a team of paleontologists from Europe and China, the discovery of a new bird-like dinosaur from the Jurassic period challenges widely accepted...

Oct 30, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A Sino-German group of paleontologists has reported the discovery of a large paleontological site in China’s northwest province of Xinjiang with about...

Jun 8, 2012 by News Staff

Scientists at the University of California in Santa Cruz have found why insects got smaller despite rising oxygen levels about 150 million years ago. This...

May 22, 2012 by Natali Anderson

An international team of paleontologists has found that two ink sacs from 160-million-year-old giant cephalopod fossils discovered two years ago in England...

May 16, 2012 by News Staff

British paleontologists have found signs of a degenerative condition similar to human arthritis in the jaw of a pliosaur, an ancient sea reptile that lived...