Paleontologists at the University of Leicester have examined the 150-million-year-old fossilized skeletons of two highly immature Pterodactylus antiquus...
Named Cordualadensa acorni, the new dragonfly species from Alberta’s Dinosaur Provincial Park represents the only Mesozoic dragonfly for Canada and fills...
Paleontologists have described a new species of the extant bee genus Leioproctus from a fossil specimen found in southern New Zealand.
Leioproctus barrydonovani,...
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of Jurassic cockroach, Alderblattina simmsi, based on an isolated wing found in Gloucestershire,...
Pakudyptes hakataramea would have been similar in body size to the living little blue penguin (Eudyptula minor), which is around 40-45 cm (15.7-17.7 inches)...
Numerous non-avian dinosaurs possessed pennaceous feathers on their proto-wings and tail. Their functions remain unclear. Seoul National University researcher...
Acoustic communication has played a key role in the evolution of a wide variety of vertebrates and insects. However, the reconstruction of ancient acoustic...
Hearing has evolved independently many times in the animal kingdom and is prominent in various insects and vertebrates for communication and predator detection....
The new find suggests that Liassophlebiidae — a small extinct family of damsel-dragonflies known from the Early Mesozoic of Europe, Asia, and Antarctica...
Feathers are a primitive trait among pennaraptoran dinosaurs, which today are represented by living birds, the only clade of dinosaurs to survive the end-Cretaceous...
Archaeologists have found seven flutes made of perforated bird bones at the Natufian site of Eynan-Mallaha in northern Israel. These instruments were intentionally...
Paleontologists have analyzed a partial pelvis bone and a small wing bone from two different pterosaur individuals found in the Australian province of...
A team of U.S. scientists has synthesized and implemented high-performance six-degree-of-freedom flight controllers for the Bee ++ , an insect-scale flying...
A new species of confuciusornithid bird being named Confuciusornis shifan has been identified from a nearly complete skeleton found in northeastern China.
Life...
A new genus and species of anatid bird has been identified from a fossilized wing bone found in Central Otago, New Zealand.
The wing bone of the Bannockburn...
Scientists from Boise State University and elsewhere have tested 252 genera from most families of large-bodied moths. Their results show that ultrasound-producing...
The humerus bones of the newly-hatched pterosaurs were stronger than those of adults pterosaurs, indicating that they would have been strong enough for...
Paleontologists have identified a new fossil genus and species of primitive praying mantis from fore- and hind-wing imprints discovered in Labrador, Canada.
Labradormantis...
