Thalassotitan atrox, a species of mosasaur that swam in the Cretaceous oceans 66 million years ago, shows that these specialized marine creatures evolved...
The newly-identified species of beaver, Microtheriomys articulaquaticus, represents the oldest semi-aquatic rodent in North America and the oldest amphibious...
Members of Jeholornis, a genus of early birds that lived in what is now China some 120 million years ago (Early Cretaceous epoch), are the earliest-known...
Archaeologists have found butchered bones from a mother mammoth and her calf and signs of controlled fire at the Hartley locality, an open-air site on...
Paleontologists in Bulgaria have described a new species of the panda genus Agriarctos, from two fossilized teeth dating to 5.5 million years ago.
Life...
Species of the horse genus Equus first appeared on the North American continent during the Pliocene era and spread to and across Eurasia beginning around...
Paleontologists have described a new species of large-sized amphicyonid carnivore from a fossilized mandible found in France.
Tartarocyon cazanavei. Image...
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and elsewhere have looked at zinc isotopes found in the teeth of extanct wild and...
Paleoanthropologists have found a permanent lower molar of a young, likely female, hominin individual at the Tam Ngu Hao 2 limestone cave in the Annamite...
Unearthed in the Swiss Alps between 1976 and 1990, the fossils include the largest ichthyosaur tooth ever found.
The habitat and animals that were found...
Bloodworms Glycera dibranchiata are known for their unusual jaws, which are made of protein (∼50% w/w), ionic and mineralized copper (up to 10%), and...
Paleontologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a bobcat-sized creature from a extinct lineage of carnivorous placental mammals.
Life reconstruction...
Otodus megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived on Earth, most certainly reached at least 15 m (50 feet) in total length based on its gigantic teeth....
An analysis of over three dozen specimens of Tyrannosaurus rex finds that they exhibit such a remarkable degree of proportional variations that the pattern...
In a new paper published this week in the journal Science Advances, paleoanthropologists report hominin fossils from Grotte Mandrin in France that reveal...
The bony tongue of the newly-identified enantiornithine bird species, Brevirostruavis macrohyoideus, was nearly as long as its head.
Life reconstruction...
A new genus and species of toothless noasaurid ceratosaur has been identified from an exceptionally complete skeleton found in southern Brazil.
Life reconstruction...
A new genus and species of plateosaurid sauropodomorph dinosaur has been identified from two fossilized skulls found in Jameson Land, a peninsula in eastern...
An international team of paleoanthropologists has discovered a partial skull and teeth from an immature individual of Homo naledi, a recently-discovered...
Paleontologists have found a million-year-old hippo tooth at the site of Westbury Cave in Somerset, England. This fossil constitutes the earliest bona...
