Feb 27, 2018 by News Staff

University of Pennsylvania paleontologist Steven Jasinski has announced the discovery of a previously unknown species of fossil turtle in the Gray Fossil...

Jan 11, 2018 by News Staff

Paleontologists say they’ve found the fossilized remains of a new genus and species of bat that lived in New Zealand between 19 and 16 million years...

Dec 7, 2017 by News Staff

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of carnivorous marsupial lion that lived 26 to 18 million years ago (late Oligocene to early Miocene) in...

Nov 3, 2017 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new large species of giraffid being named Decennatherium rex has been discovered by Dr. Maria Rios from the National Museum of Natural History of Spain...

Oct 11, 2017 by News Staff

The Pacific Northwest, a geographic region in western North America, was home to one of the planet’s most powerful known volcanic eruptions, according...

Sep 1, 2017 by News Staff

Researchers have found late Miocene footprints — which show hominin-like characteristics — near the village of Trachilos, west of Kissamos,...

Feb 22, 2017 by Enrico de Lazaro

Adult and juvenile fossil specimens of Isostylomys laurdillardi, a giant rodent that lived in South America between 9 and 6.8 million years ago (Miocene...

Jan 23, 2017 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists has identified a new species of giant otter that lived in what is now China during the latest Miocene, approximately...

Dec 5, 2016 by News Staff

Fossilized forewings (elytra) from two individuals, discovered at the Oliver Bluffs on the Beardmore Glacier, revealed the first ground beetle species...

Nov 2, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

The sabertooth salmon (Oncorhynchus rastrosus), a giant species of salmon that swam in Pacific Northwest waters from the mid-Miocene to early Pliocene,...

Oct 3, 2016 by News Staff

Fossilized teeth from a newly identified species of extinct shark that lived 20 million years ago (early Miocene) were found in the mid-latitudinal zones...

Aug 23, 2016 by News Staff

A new species of marsupial lion that lived approximately 18 million years ago has been identified from fossils found in Australia. Reconstruction of Microleo...

Aug 22, 2016 by News Staff

Certain beetles are known to pollinate plants. New fossil evidence from Mexican and Dominican fossilized amber indicates that they were doing so 20 million...

May 27, 2016 by News Staff

Fossil remains of a previously unknown group of snail-eating marsupials that lived in Australia between 10 and 15 million years ago have been discovered...

May 12, 2016 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of fossil dog that was about the size of a coyote and lived on the coast of eastern North America...

Apr 21, 2016 by News Staff

Fossils of a 13-million-year-old extinct gavialoid crocodilian from the Peruvian Amazon suggest that South American and Indian gavialoids evolved separately...

Apr 21, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Seven fossil teeth recovered from the Miocene layers of the Las Cascadas Formation in the Panama Canal Basin are the first evidence of a monkey on the...

Apr 4, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A green and black colubrid snake lived about 10 million years ago in what is today Spain, according to a team of scientists led by University College Cork...

Mar 9, 2016 by News Staff

A group of scientists at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, has reconstructed the natural history of a specific retrovirus lineage — ERV-Fc — that...

Dec 4, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

Fossil remains of a previously unknown species of palaeomerycid ruminant that lived about 16 million years ago have been found in Spain, paleontologists...