PALEONTOLOGY

New research helps paleontologists to understand horse fossils and those that are missing from the record

PALEONTOLOGY
Many people assume that horses first came to the Americas when Spanish explorers brought them here about 500 years ago. In fact, recent research...

Scientists discover endoparasitic marine tapeworm trapped in Cretaceous amber

PALEONTOLOGY
Cestoda, commonly known as tapeworms, is a large class within the platyhelminth phylum with about 5,000 species described so far. Recently, researchers from the...

In paleontology, correct names are keys to accurate study

PALEONTOLOGY
When the skeletal remains of a giant ground sloth were first unearthed in 1796, the discovery marked one of the earliest paleontological finds in...

Research shows that five three-horned dinosaurs lived, and died, together

PALEONTOLOGY
A team from Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands was looking for a Tyrannosaurus in the summer of 2013 in Wyoming. Instead, they found...

Duckbill dinosaur discovery in Morocco: Expert unpacks the mystery of how they got there

PALEONTOLOGY
Why are fossils of duckbill dinosaurs, a North American family, found in North Africa? Dinosaurs couldn't just walk there. Sixty-six million years ago, when duckbills suddenly...

Research uncovers a rare resin fossil find: A spider that aspires to be an ant

PALEONTOLOGY
Arachnophobia can make humans flee at the sight of a brown recluse, black widow or even a daddy long legs, but animal predators of...

Ancient giant dolphin discovered in the Amazon

PALEONTOLOGY
Paleontologists from the University of Zurich have announced the discovery of a new species of freshwater dolphin in the Peruvian Amazon region. Surprisingly, its...

Elephant calves have been found buried. What does that mean?

PALEONTOLOGY
The myth of elephant graveyards has pervaded popular culture, and recent observations of buried Asian elephant calves may finally give that legend some credence. In...

Tanks of the triassic: New crocodile ancestor identified

PALEONTOLOGY
Dinosaurs get all the glory. But aetosaurs, a heavily armored cousin of modern crocodiles, ruled the world before dinosaurs did. These tanks of the...

Researchers present the world’s oldest long-necked marine reptile

PALEONTOLOGY
An international team of scientists led by Dr. Stephan Spiekman, Dr. Eudald Mujal and Prof. Dr. Rainer Schoch, paleontologists at the State Museum of...

‘Frozen behaviors’ in amber fossils: How to reconstruct mating behavior of long-extinct termites

PALEONTOLOGY
Approximately 38 million years ago two termites were in the middle of courtship behavior when they got entrapped by tree resin and preserved in...

Earth’s earliest forest revealed in Somerset fossils

PALEONTOLOGY
Scientists have discovered remnants of the Earth's oldest fossil forest on the north coast of Devon and Somerset in the U.K. The trees, which...
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