PALEONTOLOGY

Fossil once thought a caterpillar is now the oldest known nonmarine lobopodian

In a twist worthy of a detective novel, a long-misidentified fossil at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) has emerged as a key discovery...

What dinosaur teeth reveal about life 150 million years ago

What did long-necked dinosaurs eat—and where did they roam to satisfy their hunger? A team of researchers has reconstructed the feeding behavior of sauropods...

The first dinosaurs might have been bigger than expected

An ancient leg bone uncovered in Africa might provide a step forward in understanding how dinosaurs and their close relatives evolved. The 225-million-year-old fossil adds to growing...

Japan’s first western ichthyosaur discovered during educational museum event

A vertebrate fossil discovered in a rock from the Late Triassic period (approximately 220 million years ago) in Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture, has been...

New species of tiny Cretaceous mammal discovered on the Dorset coast

A University of Portsmouth student has discovered a new species of prehistoric mammal dating back 145 million years to the Berriasian age, providing fresh...

Complex animals living millions of years before the Cambrian Explosion revealed by seabed tracks

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first appear...

70 million-year-old dinosaur fossil discovered under Denver Museum of Nature and Science

A new dinosaur fossil at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science was found buried hundreds of feet under the facility's parking lot in...

380-million-year-old lungfish jawbones reveal ancient eating habits of Earth’s first land animals

Predatory fish that evolved into the first terrestrial animals on Earth are still revealing insights into the origins of mammals—including new research into the...

Dinosaur wrist bone discovery reshapes understanding of flight evolution

An analysis of two theropod dinosaur fossils has shown that they had a type of carpal bone (pisiform) in their wrists—a bone considered important...

Eggs en Provence: France’s unique dinosaur egg trove

At the foot of Sainte Victoire, the mountain in Provence immortalized by Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne, a paleontologist brushes meticulously through a mound of...

Shaped by paleogeography: A new world map of marine mollusks

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the major global ocean currents. The geological age of...

Ancient organisms stored arsenic to survive early Earth’s toxic oceans, study suggests

Earth's earliest life forms developed ways to survive the harmful effects of arsenic to cope with dramatic changes in their environment, a new study...

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