Nov 18, 2024 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers has described a new species of miniaturized gecko in the genus Pseudogonatodes from the Peninsula de Paria in northeastern...

Nov 14, 2024 by News Staff

Paleontologists have unearthed the exquisitely preserved remains of Cretaceous enantiornithine bird in São Paulo state, southeastern Brazil. The extraordinary...

Nov 4, 2024 by News Staff

Paleontologists have unearthed and examined a fossilized leg bone of a phorusrhacid bird that lived 12 million years ago in South America. A model of Paraphysornis...

Oct 31, 2024 by News Staff

Paleontologists have discovered the well-preserved fossilized remains of a tadpole of the early anuran species Notobatrachus degiustoi at the locality...

Oct 21, 2024 by Natali Anderson

Ornithologists have described a new species of tanager in the genus Trichothraupis living on the Eastern slopes of the Andes. Trichothraupis melanops (above)...

Oct 18, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have identified a species of medium-sized iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur from two specimens found in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina. Life...

Oct 11, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists say they’ve identified a new species of marine reptile in the ophthalmosaurid genus Platypterygius that lived approximately 125 million...

Oct 4, 2024 by Natali Anderson

A team of marine biologists led by a Florida International University researcher has described a new species of the shark genus Sphyrna from the Caribbean...

Oct 2, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of silesaurid being named Gondwanax paraisensis has been identified from the fossilized remains discovered in Southern Brazil. Gondwanax...

Sep 30, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Fossilized remains found in Patagonia, Argentina back in 2009 represent a new genus and species of plant-eating dinosaur that belonged to a group called...

Sep 25, 2024 by News Staff

Amaga pseudobama has been found in three locations in North Carolina and in some infested plants from Georgia. Amaga pseudobama, living specimen collected...

Sep 25, 2024 by News Staff

Paleontologists in Brazil have examined the well-preserved fossilized remains of two mammal-precursor species: Brasilodon quadrangularis and Riograndia...

Sep 11, 2024 by News Staff

Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, is one of the most isolated inhabited places in the world. It has captured the imagination of many owing to its...

Aug 29, 2024 by News Staff

Paleontologists have unearthed a 20-million-year-old fossilized skeleton of a species of the dugongid sirenian mammal Culebratherium with shark and crocodylian...

Aug 26, 2024 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists led by Southern Methodist University has discovered more than 260 footprints of Early Cretaceous dinosaurs in Brazil and in Cameroon,...

Aug 12, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of ornithologists has described a cryptic new species of the bird genus Oceanites from Chile. The Andean storm-petrel (Oceanites...

Jul 17, 2024 by Natali Anderson

Bolivian coffee producers have filmed the Amazon weasel (Neogale africana) near their shade-grown plots as part of a citizen science monitoring program. The...

Jul 17, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists in Argentina have analyzed the 21,000-year-old fossil remains with cut marks belonging to a specimen of the exinct glyptodont Neosclerocalyptus,...

Jul 10, 2024 by News Staff

The newly-discovered structures predate the famous Inca citadel of Machu Picchu by roughly 3,500 years, and were made long before the Inca and their predecessors,...

Jul 2, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleobotanists have described nine new species of the grape family Vitaceae on the basis of 60- to 19-million-year-old fossil seeds discovered in four...