Mar 5, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists and anthropologists led by Dr Kieran McNulty from the University of Minnesota have discovered definitive evidence of the widespread, dense,...

Jan 23, 2014 by News Staff

A new species of prehistoric hoatzin from the late Eocene of France is the earliest fossil record of hoatzins and the first one from Europe, according...

Nov 21, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Paleontologists led by Dr Jelle Zijlstra from Harvard’s Peabody Museum have discovered a new genus and species of tarsier that lived in what is modern-day...

Nov 11, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new species of giant, spineless hedgehog that lived in what is today the Gargano peninsula of Italy during the late Miocene,...

Nov 5, 2013 by News Staff

An Australian-U.S. team of paleontologists has found a unique fossil of a huge, carnivorous platypus that lived in what is now Australia during the late...

Oct 28, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Paleontologist from Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has described an odd new hippopotamus-like animal that lived in what is now California...

Sep 9, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of a 6.1-million-year-old relatively complete and largely undistorted juvenile cranium...

Nov 7, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of paleontologists led by the University of Michigan has studied fossilized teeth of saber-toothed cats and bear dogs found at Cerro...

Jun 25, 2012 by News Staff

A team of US researchers, including NASA scientists, has found that ancient Antarctica was much warmer and wetter than previously suspected. This artist's...