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A giant fossilized penguin discovered by New Zealand school children has been revealed as a new species in the peer-reviewed Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology by Massey University…
Rare fossils preserving the brains of creatures living more than half a billion years ago shed new light on the evolution of arthropods. Exquisitely preserved…
Research from the Milner Center for Evolution suggests modern snakes evolved from a handful of ancestors that survived the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. A…
Scientists at the University of Missouri are using an ancient find to unlock new clues surrounding the diversity of species following the Cambrian explosion. Many…
Scientists Reveal the Fossilized Skin of a Bull-Like Carnivorous Dinosaur One of the strangest carnivorous dinosaurs ever discovered has been given a makeover by a…
University of Tsukuba researchers have described a new apex predator from the lower Upper Cretaceous of Central Asia, Ulughbegsaurus uzbekistanensis, which coexisted with a smaller…
Remains include the first armored dinosaurs and land-dwelling crocs from the region. Where skeletons are rare, isolated teeth can flesh out our understanding of ancient…
Complete skeleton provides first look at entire body of Tupandactylus navigans. A fossil acquired in a police raid has turned out to be one of…
A plant fossil from a geological formation in Scotland sheds light on the development of the earliest known form of roots. A team led by…
Early Land Plants Evolved From Freshwater Algae, Fossils Reveal The world may need to start thinking differently about plants, according to a new report in…
Among the fierce carnivores that lived during the late Cretaceous was a predator named Daspletosaurus. The massive tyrannosaur, about nine meters long, lived in the…
A team of international researchers, led by the University of Bologna, has discovered the fossilized remains of methane-cycling microbes that lived in a hydrothermal system…
A new pelomedusoid turtle from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar provides evidence for convergent evolution of suction feeding among pleurodires. We here describe a new…
Fossil apes can inform us about essential aspects of ape and human evolution, including the nature of our last common ancestor. In the 150 years…
Paleontologists working in museum collections in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany have identified five additional specimens of a 240-million-year-old ichthyosaur, named Besanosaurus leptorhynchus, which was previously…
Trilobites Had a Leg Up on Breathing A new study has found the first evidence of sophisticated breathing organs in 450-million-year-old sea creatures. Contrary to…
Paleontologists from the Universities of Bonn and Liverpool examined 14 skulls of Plateosaurus trossingensis. “Everyone’s unique” is a popular maxim. All people are equal, but…
A serendipitous discovery of a fossilized bony lung reveals a massive ancient fish. Fossilized remains of a fish that grew as big as a great…