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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…
Royal Ontario Museum paleontologists unearth one of the largest radiodonts of the Cambrian explosion. Paleontologists at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) have uncovered the remains…
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati identified a new species of mosasaur — an 18-foot-long fish-eating monster that lived 80 million years ago. UC assistant…
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…
New research from Portland State University sheds light on the diets of the Late Jurassic dinosaur Allosaurus. In a paper published on August 23, 2021,…
International team of researchers describe a new fossil species representing the ancient forerunner of most modern reptiles. Lizards and snakes are a key component of…
Tyrannosaurus rex’s ‘bite detectors’ better than any other dinosaur studied yet. Tyrannosaurus rex was not just a huge beast with a big bite, it had nerve…
From the isotopes inside a 1.7-meter-long tusk, researchers recreated the life history of one Arctic woolly mammoth that lived more than 17,000 years ago, offering…
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…
Research published today in the peer-reviewed Journal of Systematic Palaeontology describes the discovery of three new species of ancient creatures from the dawn of modern mammals, and…
An international research team has retraced the astonishing lifetime journey of an Arctic woolly mammoth, which covered enough of the Alaska landscape during its 28…
Today, being “birdbrained” means forgetting where you left your keys or wallet. But 66 million years ago, it may have meant the difference between life…
Using an exceptionally preserved fossil from South Africa, a particle accelerator, and high-powered x-rays, an international team including a University of Minnesota researcher has discovered…
A team of geneticists and archaeologists from Ireland, France, Iran, Germany, and Austria has sequenced the DNA from a 1,600-year-old sheep mummy from an ancient…
Newly-hatched pterosaurs may have been able to fly but their flying abilities may have been different from adult pterosaurs, according to a new study. Pterosaurs…
Most of the viruses were previously unknown to humans, study finds. Scientists who study glacier ice have found viruses nearly 15,000 years old in two…
A ball of 4,000-year-old hair frozen in time tangled around a whalebone comb led to the first ever reconstruction of an ancient human genome just…