PALEONTOLOGY

Ancient fossils show how the last mass extinction forever scrambled the ocean’s biodiversity

PALEONTOLOGY
About 66 million years ago—perhaps on a downright unlucky day in May—an asteroid smashed into our planet. The fallout was immediate and severe. Evidence shows...

Fossils show colonies of reptiles lived communally 250 million years ago

PALEONTOLOGY
A fossilized colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa. It's the first time...

First named pterosaur from Japan sheds light on ancient flying reptiles

PALEONTOLOGY
A team of researchers from Japan, China, and Brazil have discovered a new species of pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Japan, marking the...

How herbivore communities remained remarkably resilient for 60 million years despite extinction and upheaval

PALEONTOLOGY
From mastodons to ancient rhinos and giant deer, large herbivores have been shaping Earth's landscapes for millions of years. A new study, published in...

Wasp lookalikes from 33 million years ago fooled ancient birds too

PALEONTOLOGY
New fossil shows that precise wasp mimicry in hoverflies evolved far earlier than previously thought—and wasn't shaped by modern birds. Děčín, Czech Republic—A newly discovered...

Nearly complete dinosaur skull reveals a new sauropod species from East Asia

PALEONTOLOGY
A team led by China University of Geosciences has described a new species of sauropod, Jinchuanloong niedu, from a partial skeleton and nearly complete...

Scientists find new markers to identify species from fragments of fossilized bone

PALEONTOLOGY
What happened to all the megafauna? From moas to mammoths, many large animals went extinct between 50 and 10,000 years ago. Learning why could...

Ancient Patagonian fossil sperm whale may have been active predator, reanalysis indicates

PALEONTOLOGY
A recent study, published in Papers in Palaeontology, discusses the reanalysis of the only known Idiorophus patagonicus specimen. After a nearly 130-year scientific slumber, the...

Birds nested alongside dinosaurs in the Arctic: Fossil find pushes polar nesting record back by 25 million years

PALEONTOLOGY
Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young. The same was...

Long shot science leads to revised age for land-animal ancestor

PALEONTOLOGY
In 1984, an amateur paleontologist in Scotland found a remarkable specimen: a nearly complete fossil of what looked to be a lizard or salamander....

Plateosaurus tail may have served as a powerful defensive weapon, paleontologists discover

PALEONTOLOGY
A small team of paleontologists with members from Austria, Germany and Switzerland has found evidence suggesting that a herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Triassic...

The world’s best-preserved fossils are right outside Chicago: But there are no dinosaur bones at Mazon Creek

PALEONTOLOGY
Sixty-five miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones movie breaks up the flat, monotone landscape....
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