Aug 18, 2021 by News Staff

Paleontologists have identified three new species of placental mammals called condylarths (archaic ungulates) from fossils found in Wyoming, the United...

Aug 11, 2021 by News Staff

Paleontologists have examined tooth morphologies in multiple lineages of sharks that lived during the 27.6-million-year interval around the end-Cretaceous...

Jul 15, 2021 by News Staff

A new genus and species of extinct rodent has been identified from two fossilized teeth found in Puerto Rico. This artist’s reconstruction shows the...

Jul 12, 2021 by News Staff

The evolutionary adaptation of the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) to bamboo diet has taken place by adaptations in its masticatory (chewing) system,...

Jul 7, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have identified two new species of palaeotheriid mammals from fossils found at the Eocene site of Zambrana in Alava, Spain. Palaeotheriid...

Jul 5, 2021 by News Staff

An international team of archaeologists has found multiple fossil shark teeth within Iron Age cultural layers dating to 8-9th century BCE in the City of...

Jun 2, 2021 by News Staff

In a paper published in the journal PeerJ, paleontologists present bite force estimates for a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex based on mechanical tests designed...

Jun 1, 2021 by News Staff

A rare iron mineral called santabarbaraite has never before been seen in a living organism, according to a paper to be published in the Proceedings of...

May 25, 2021 by News Staff

A duo of paleontologists from San Diego State University and the San Diego Natural History Museum has explored the transition from raptorial feeding in...

Mar 29, 2021 by News Staff

Odontoblasts, cells that form dentin, the shell beneath the tooth’s enamel that encases the soft dental pulp containing nerves and blood vessels, contain...

Mar 29, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Neanderthals, our evolutionary cousins, used toothpicks nearly 46,000 years ago, a new study of their teeth has revealed. A reconstruction of a Neanderthal...

Mar 1, 2021 by News Staff

Paleontologists in the United States have discovered and analyzed the fossilized remains from two species of Purgatorius, the oldest genus in a group of...

Feb 17, 2021 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has sequenced and analyzed DNA from three mammoth specimens, two of which are more than one million years old. The...

Feb 1, 2021 by News Staff

Several hominin teeth found the Paleolithic site of La Cotte de St Brelade in Jersey may belong to Neanderthal-Homo sapiens hybrids, according to new research...

Jan 26, 2021 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists has examined the fossilized remains of baby tyrannosaurid dinosaurs found in Alberta, Canada, and Montana, the...

Jan 20, 2021 by News Staff

A bizarre new genus and species of mosasaur with teeth unlike those of any known reptile has been identified from fossils found in Morocco. Life reconstruction...

Jan 15, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of paleontologists from Austria and Switzerland has uncovered an exceptionally well-preserved skeleton of Asteracanthus ornatissimus,...

Dec 28, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

In new research, an international team of scientists examined the dental calculus of individuals who lived during the 2nd millennium BCE in the Southern...

Dec 27, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

An early mammal called Priacodon fruitaensis was well adapted for powerful and precise biting, and had a varied faunivorous diet that likely included insects...

Dec 7, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of probainognathian cynodont that roamed our planet during the Triassic period has been identified from two fossilized specimens...