Oct 13, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Fossils from Montana show a small oviraptorosaur with a jaw that slid front to back, a feature shared with fruit-eating parrots. Infernogallus jamesi,...

Oct 7, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

CT scans of a fossil found near Cairo show the animal was not a relative of the false gharial (Tomistoma schlegelii), as paleontologists long thought. The...

Sep 23, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Scientists have created a digital facial approximation of the Jebel Irhoud hominin, whose remains are dated to about 315,000 years ago. Facial approximation...

Sep 10, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleoanthropologists have identified a trove of Denisovan fossils from a cave in China’s Yunnan province, extending the known range of the elusive human...

Aug 31, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

For nearly a century, scientists have treated the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) as a textbook case of convergent evolution — a marsupial that...

Aug 28, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

An incomplete fossilized skull that has sat in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Denmark since the 19th century has turned out to represent...

Aug 10, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new analysis of three skull fragments unearthed at the Gran Dolina cave site in Spain indicates that Homo antecessor had bone thickness closer to that...

Aug 6, 2026 by Natali Anderson

New research led by University of Lethbridge scientists offers the most detailed look yet at how the dodo (Raphus cucullatus) — the flightless bird...

Jul 30, 2026 by Sergio Prostak

A fossilized skull fragment of Homo sp. unearthed in central Spain offers paleoanthropologists a fresh window into the story of ancient humans who lived...

Jul 23, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have unearthed a remarkably preserved fossil snake in Brazil that is reshaping ideas about how the earliest snakes lived and complicating...

Jul 14, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur has been identified in southern Alberta, Canada, dating back 77 million years to the Campanian...

Jun 29, 2026 by Natali Anderson

A nearly complete skull unearthed decades ago in Arizona has given paleontologists their clearest look yet at Adelphailurus kansensis, an enigmatic felid...

May 20, 2026 by News Staff

Paleontologists from University College London and the University of Cambridge say the large predatory dinosaurs’ tiny arms evolved alongside massive...

Apr 29, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have descibed a new species of the multituberculate mammal genus Cimolodon based on a fossil found in Baja California, Mexico. An illustration...

Apr 23, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in Brazil have identified a new genus and species of hyperodapedontine rhynchosaur — an extinct lineage of beaked, herbivorous reptiles...

Apr 17, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of carnivorous herrerasaurian dinosaur has been described from an incomplete but well-preserved skull found in northern New Mexico,...

Apr 15, 2026 by News Staff

New research shows that the large-bodied ornithopod dinosaur Muttaburrasaurus langdoni from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia was no ordinary herbivore....

Mar 23, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

A semi-complete skull of an adult Edmontosaurus at Montana State’s Museum of the Rockies preserves a fleeting moment from the Late Cretaceous: a tyrannosaur...

Mar 3, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Beyond their value for classification and evolutionary relationships, changes in the size and shape of the hominin face through time can reflect important...

Feb 18, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

New dating of fossil skulls from the Early Pleistocene site of Yunxian in China suggests that early members of Homo erectus lived in eastern Asia nearly...