Jul 7, 2023 by News Staff

Rimrock Draw Rockshelter in Oregon, the United States, is one of the oldest human-occupation sites in North America. Rimrock Draw Rockshelter in Oregon,...

Jun 27, 2023 by News Staff

Paleontologists say they collected numerous vertebrate specimens from the Late Jurassic Malone Formation in the Malone Mountains of western Texas, the...

Jun 23, 2023 by News Staff

Olympicetus thalassodon is one of several that are helping us understand the early history and diversification of modern dolphins, porpoises and other...

Jun 21, 2023 by News Staff

The rusty patched bumblebee (Bombus affinis) is an important pollinator in North America and a federally listed endangered species. Putting together its...

Jun 20, 2023 by Sergio Prostak

A new genus and species of mosasaurid being named Sarabosaurus dahli has been discovered by a team of paleontologists from the United States, the Netherlands...

Jun 8, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in the United States have identified a new genus and species of early arctoid from an exquisitely preserved skeleton found in North Dakota’s...

Jun 7, 2023 by News Staff

Paleontologists have identified a new species of iguanodontian dinosaur from a partial skeleton found in the Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, the United...

Jun 5, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have unearthed several complete skeletons of gomphotheres — an extinct relative of elephants — at the Montbrook Fossil Dig...

May 16, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur has been described from a partial skull found in Montana, the United States. Life reconstruction...

May 16, 2023 by News Staff

Scientists from the Florida Museum of Natural History and elsewhere have sequenced 391 genes from nearly 2,300 butterfly species, sampled from 90 countries...

Apr 14, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of hyperodapedontine rhynchosaur from several specimens unearthed in central Wyoming, the United...

Apr 13, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Fossil Lake deposits of the Green River Formation of Wyoming in the United States have produced nearly 30 bat fossils over the last 50 years. However,...

Apr 6, 2023 by Natali Anderson

Siren sphagnicola inhabits seepage areas in the eastern Gulf Coastal Plain of the United States. Siren sphagnicola, an adult hypertrophic male with a partially...

Apr 4, 2023 by News Staff

The dinosaur-bird transition is among the most fascinating events in evolutionary history, but several aspects such as changes in reproductive system,...

Mar 28, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists from the University of Texas at Austin have identified a new species of ancient beaver from the fossilized remains found at several sites...

Mar 10, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Edowa zuniensis is the first species of baenid turtle described from the Turonian age of North America. Life reconstruction of Edowa zuniensis. Image credit:...

Feb 16, 2023 by Simon Braddy

Palmichnium gallowayi, a 460-million-year-old fossil trackway of a sea scorpion, from upstate New York, is one of the earliest signs of animal life on...

Feb 15, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Miracinonyx trumani is an extinct species of cheetah-like cat that roamed the North American prairies and steppe terrains more than 13,000 years ago. Miracinonyx...

Feb 3, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Scientists have found fragments a human-made projectile point in a rib of an American mastodon (Mammut americanum) from the Manis site, Washington, the...

Jan 30, 2023 by Sergio Prostak

Hibbertopterus lamsdelli is only the fourth, yet most reliable record of an American hibbertopterid sea scorpion. Life reconstruction of a hibbertopterid...