PALEONTOLOGY

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

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

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

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

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....

Cheeky discovery: Scientists identify previously unknown soft tissue structure in dinosaurs

Researchers have found evidence of a previously unrecognized soft tissue structure in the cheek region of many dinosaur species, which they've called the "exoparia."...

Ancient cemeteries and rock art discovered on Morocco’s Tangier Peninsula

A trio of archaeologists from the University of Barcelona and the University of Castilla-La Mancha, both in Spain, and the National Institute of Archaeology...

Ancestors of today’s crocodilians survived two mass extinction events: Study uncovers secret to their longevity

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's swampiest corners for millions of years. But their...

UV light and CT scans help scientists unlock hidden details in a perfectly-preserved fossil Archaeopteryx

Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It's the oldest known fossil bird, and it helps show that all birds— including the ones...

Paleontologists identify 12 new dinosaur teeth in China’s Nenjiang Formation

A recent study by Keifeng Yu and his colleagues, published in Acta Geologica Sinica, describes the discovery and identification of 12 new dinosaur teeth...

Fossil of a new mammal species from the age of dinosaurs discovered in Mongolia’s Gobi desert

A joint research team has discovered a fossil belonging to a previously unknown genus and species of mammal in the Late Cretaceous (100–66 million-year-old)...

One billion years ago, a meteorite struck Scotland and influenced life on Earth

We've discovered that a meteorite struck northwest Scotland 1 billion years ago, 200 million years later than previously thought. Our results are published today...

New Holocene Aboriginal rock art style identified in recent study

A recent study conducted by Dr. Ana Paula Motta and her colleagues, in collaboration with the Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation, has identified a new mid-to-late...

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