It’s always been contentious when primates started climbing trees. The discovery of some new ankle…
Browsing: Paleontology
Paleontology is the scientific study of life in Earth’s past, primarily through the analysis of fossils—remains, traces, or impressions of ancient organisms preserved in rock. By uncovering and interpreting these remnants, paleontologists reconstruct evolutionary histories, ecosystems, and environmental changes that have occurred over millions of years. This field bridges geology and biology, shedding light on everything from the age of dinosaurs to the earliest microbial life. Explore this page for the latest fossil discoveries, analytical techniques, and insights into how ancient life helps us understand both the past and the future of our planet.
20 years ago, Mary Schweitzer discovered that she spotted the effects of what could only…
Pachycephalosaurids had domed heads with thick, bony protuberances, which paleontologists hypothesized the dinosaurs used in…
Back in 2009, researchers had become quite excited about Predator X, an immense, big-headed marine…
A new study of fossils in New Zealand has discovered that cloning dinosaurs or organisms…
A Cretaceous period juvenile spider was trapped in amber before it could devour a male…
Paleontologists have discovered that horseshoe crabs haven’t had an entirely static evolutionary history. A new…
Pegomastax africanus is a new species of plant-eating dinosaur with tiny, 1-inch-long (2.5-centimeter-long) jaws, which…
Paleontologists have discovered micrometer-scale fossils of plankton from the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a period of…
Two 305-million-year-old insect nymphs were scanned in high resolution in order to construct three-dimensional portraits.…
Fossilized imprints and trackways record the movement and behavior of species long extinct. An amateur…
Arthropods from the Triassic period have been discovered preserved in amber. They are 100 million…
New evidence, presented as fossilized skulls, has been discovered that seems to imply that three…
A particularly well-preserved bushy-tailed fossilized theropod could imply that most of the dinosaurs actually had…
These extraordinary 47-million-year-old fossils depict prehistoric turtles reproducing. The study was led by Walter Joyce,…
A new paper by 22 international scientists describes the need for better predictive models based…
By analyzing fossil evidence from skeletons, eggs, and soft tissue of birdlike dinosaurs and primitive…
The remains of the largest crocodilian known to have existed, Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni, were unearthed in…