Aug 28, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have unearthed a beautifully preserved skull and jaws as well as part of the postcranial skeleton of a previously unknown peirosaur species...

Aug 21, 2025 by News Staff

Thousands of years ago, ancient Homo sapiens undertook a treacherous journey, crossing hundreds of km of ice over the Bering Strait to the unknown world...

Aug 5, 2025 by News Staff

Interbreeding between tomato plants and potato-like species from South America about 8-9 million years ago gave rise to the modern-day potato (Solanum...

Jul 28, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in Patagonia, Argentina, have unearthed a portion of a postcranial skeleton that belonged to a previously unknown rebbachisaurid sauropod...

Jul 4, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Herpetologists have described three new species of the frog genus Pristimantis from the rugged, misty highlands of northwestern Peru. Pristimantis chinguelas....

Jun 24, 2025 by News Staff

Archaeologists in Bolivia have discovered an ancient complex roughly 215 km (130 miles) south-east of Tiwanaku’s historical site, where a large, modular...

Jun 20, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

The discovery of Litoria tylerantiqua suggests that Australian treefrogs (pelodryadids) were present in Australia by the Early Eocene, when the continent...

Jun 18, 2025 by News Staff

Pre-contact Central and South American dogs (Canis familiaris) — all dogs preceding contact with European settlers — descended from a single...

Jun 18, 2025 by News Staff

In new research, paleontologists combined data on the distribution of Triassic pterosauromorph (pterosaur + lagerpetid) fossils with information on the...

Jun 13, 2025 by News Staff

Most megafaunal herbivores in the Americas went extinct around 10,000 years ago, presumably disrupting the long-distance seed dispersal of large, fleshy-fruited...

Apr 24, 2025 by News Staff

Paleontologists have described the oldest known member of Haidomyrmecinae — an extinct subfamily of ants that only lived during the Cretaceous period...

Apr 14, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur has been described from fossils discovered at a paleontological locality in the Argentine province...

Apr 3, 2025 by News Staff

Apes and monkeys possess special anatomical structures in their throats called vocal membranes, which disappeared from humans through evolution to allow...

Mar 3, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of proterochampsid archosauriform has been identified from an almost complete fossilized hindlimb found in southern Brazil. Artistic...

Feb 3, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

In a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE, paleontologists analyzed the fossilized remains of the alvarezsaurid dinosaur Bonapartenykus from the...

Jan 23, 2025 by News Staff

Dinosaurs dominated Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems for approximately 160 million years, but their biogeographic origin remains poorly understood. The...

Jan 3, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in Uruguay have discovered large, poorly preserved and incomplete skulls, as well as several associated bones, of ancient aquatic reptiles...

Dec 26, 2024 by News Staff

In 2022, biologists with Conservation International conducted a survey that uncovered a trove of biodiversity in the heart of the Alto Mayo landscape,...

Dec 20, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of monofenestratan pterosaur has been identified from partial cranial and postcranial remains found in Chubut Province, Patagonia,...

Dec 2, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have identified a new species of the extinct armadillo genus Parutaetus from fossilized osteoderms collected in the state of Paraná in...